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Originally Posted by Wormius
Some of the reasoning against gun control is so out of whack. "They'll buy them on the black market, anyway". Sure, maybe, but it would take a hell of a long time to accumulate 30 some odd guns on the black market without raising some suspicion. Even if a maid at the hotel managed to spot the guns in his room, could they even have done anything?
Aren't there already enough guns in America anyway? Do they wear out that frequently that they still need to be manufactured for civilians? They need to start looking outward, do Australia, Canada, UK, Japan have such problems? We have large cities too, so they can't blame the higher population of the states. I'd at least like to see travel advisories applied to the States, like they are showing for Mexico.
https://travel.state.gov/content/pas...l-warning.html
You could swap "Mexico" for "US" and it would be entirely accurate. |
Sure I get what your saying, but if you modify the gun laws, and force more stringent requirements on legal gun ownership, then you can effect make gun owners commercially responsible and open the way in effect to litigation against Gun shops who don't precisely follow the laws. In effect you take it that step further and state that if you don't follow the law and someone gets hurt because of that you are now financially liable for the damages caused.
that opens the way for going after the black market. I've argued that as much as its the fault of American gun manufacturers. You have the Chinese making a ton of money off of selling and smuggling guns into the States, same with Thailand and Russia and other nations. Improved port and border security has to be a big part of any gun control debate. As well as extremely punitive penalties for illegal weapons, and gun violence crimes.
A automatic sentence of life no matter what the circumstance for a gun related death, which even means if you accidentally shoot your kid because you thought he was a burgler.
If your a gang member and shoot someone in a drive through your never getting out so don't worry about earning your stripes in prison, you're never rejoining your gang.
Heck someone needs to take it a step further in my mind. No more semi automatic weapons for civilian guns, no more magazines, all single shots for rifles. for pistols, if you want multiple shots, you can have this snub nosed 6 shot wheel gun that is accurate out to 10 feet.
The old argument of we need our guns to protect ourselves from an oppressive government is BS. The American army has thousands of tanks, thousands of APC's, hundreds of advanced gun ship helicopters and close in air support aircraft. So if the american government ever decided to become really oppressive, your all oppressed. And some fat outs of shape militia guy with a machine gun is going to die gloriously and in a heart beat.
If Donald Trump really wanted to be a rebel president and show that he's not part of the swamp, he'd presidentially order the #### out of gun control and even though it would be struck down by the courts, he would have done far more then any other president on this issue.