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Originally Posted by jswirs
Well, I guess some of what you say may be true. But please keep in mind that when guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns. Add to that, if crazies cannot obtain a gun, they can still have mass murders by running a vehicle into a crowd, making home made bombs, etc., etc. Sorry, gun control in this country will work as well as alcohol prohibition, drug control, (Hell, we can't even keep drugs out of prisons!), etc., etc.
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We've all heard that tired argument from the NRA. That is like saying "laws are pointless because criminals break them". Or "all drugs should be legal because addicts will get them anyways." Number one, guns will never be outlawed, Congress is not going to repeal the second amendment. No one wants to outlaw guns but the aim is to make gun laws less liberal so that those who should not have guns will have a more difficult time obtaining them. Given this, law enforcement and qualified law-abiding individuals would possess guns, and not only outlaws. We need to have common sense restrictions on those who can obtain or use firearms. Over time, it would be more difficult for criminals to obtain guns. If there are less guns in circulation, then there will be fewer guns in the hands of criminals.
I was reading interesting statistics about gun control in the UK. Ownership of guns for sport is acceptable and tightly regulated, but other than that, the UK has the strictest gun control legislation anywhere in the world. As a result, their rate of firearm homicide is 0.05 per 100,000 people. The rate in the US is 5.9.