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Originally Posted by Number 10 GI
There is no rationalization there at all, just the unvarnished, inconvenient truth. Heroin, cocaine and all the other dangerous drugs are illegal to possess, use or sell but you can go into the smallest Podunk farm town in fly over country and buy these drugs. Why? Because there is a demand and organized crime will fill that demand. Prohibition proved that beyond a doubt and gave organized crime it's start on becoming what it is today. Prohibition really worked well!  There was more alcohol consumption per capita during Prohibition than before and after. If a criminal wants a weapon there will be someone who will have one for sale illegally. It really doesn't take much common sense to understand that. |
What I understand is that ANY problem can be solved IF large resources ($) and expertise and time are devoted to it. That's why the US was 1st to the moon. (Note : in a time when the tax law did NOT favor the rich who stop it circulating by putting it in Swiss bank accounts). Today, with respect to the problem of auto-loading military-style rifles, IF--IF the rich profiteering gun manufacturers (that take your $ on their high margin m-style weapons) were to STOP manufacturing THOSE and the Police had the resources ($) to do BUY-BACKS it would WORK. Society would have to pony up the big bucks, YES. Don't forget that Police are the ones NOT killed by single-shot and bolt action (used by hunters). The Police who sat down and thought about it would LIKE the idea of those BUY-BACKS. Matter of fact they do NOW, but don't have enough $ to buy enough from the marginal criminals, who would gladly sell them and go back to being pick-pockets as...like maybe 1940 or so. PS...single shots and bolt are LOWER margin weapons.