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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Yeah, beyond the fact that you have a society with a unhealthy obsession with guns, if you shut down domestic manufacturing, some entrepreneurial people will just find a way to bring in the guns from other countries like India and China and Russia to sell.
So unless you can shut down local manufacturing, secure all the ports, secure all the border crossings, secure all methods of getting guns into the states, the idea of a ban of fire arms is going to fail.
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It would fail only if you disingenuously frame the discussion as "even one firearm death = fail". That's the hallmark of the intellectually lazy "can't stop 100% so don't even try" argument that people like Whiteout and Transplant are pushing. It ignores the reality that the world is full of examples of gun bans and restrictions resulting in much lower rates of firearms-related crime, suicides and accidents.
Gun smuggling would obviously be a thing - it's a thing in Canada, after all. But under this hypothetical, the number of new guns entering the market would still be dramatically reduced relative to today. And that would create a positive long-term trend of reduced prevalence of guns in American society.