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Originally Posted by jimjamuser
1st step would be to stop making new ones or at least selling new ones in the US, Canada, or Mexico. Then whenever a semi-auto rifle was used in a crime or found in a criminal's hands it would either be melted down or sold somewhere like Africa. Then, there could be government buy-backs of semi-auto rifles. It would probably take 30 years or so of this to have a big effect on mass murders. But, at least they would start going down. Since mass murders are on the increase, at least this would save some of your grandchildren's children's lives. Law-abiding citizens could still keep their semi-auto weapons, but any magazine over say 5 rounds would be illegal to possess and there would be a fine given.
.........Personally, I would want the same thing to happen with semi-auto pistols after about 10 years from now.
.........I know that none of that will actually happen because the NRA and the gun manufacturers care more about money than American childrens' lives and they have their DEVIL hooks into the average gun owner
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I agree that it will never happen, but for different reasons.
In my opinion the NRA is merely a handy bogieman for the anti-gun folks. The NRA at its peak in 2018 never had more than 5.5 million members. But to NOT blame the NRA would mean that the anti-gun people would have to accept that there are other reasons that so many people own guns, such as law-abiding people strongly supporting the Second Amendment, and the necessity that citizens be armed to protect themselves against government overreach. Things like that.
It is an interesting paradox, though. If one accepts the argument that most Americans strongly favor more stringent laws relating to gun ownership, then natural question is: why don't legislators CHANGE those laws? after all, legislators are elected by citizens, and what legislator would go directly against the wishes of his or her constituents? The words "political suicide" comes to mind. Additionally, the argument that these legislators are bought off by NRA money is patently ridiculous: the NRA doesn't vote.
No. Gun laws don't change because America's legislators by and large won't risk their careers by supporting something their constituents DON'T want to change.