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Originally Posted by Doctor Kaiju
Guns will not become significantly harder to procure in the USA, regardless of any laws passed (which never have teeth, as congress knows who butters the bread).
Not only does the USA produce over 5 million guns a year, there are already more than 300 million guns in circulation.
Australia comparisons are well meant, but ridiculous.
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But of course, if it becomes illegal to have a gun on your posession, you immediately reduce the amount of people who will take that risk - the sort of people who at the moment bring a gun "just in case" and who may end up using it in the wrong situations.
At this point I just find it baffling that it is absolutely demonstrably clear from every country that have gun restrictions, that doing so reduces the deaths caused by gun crime.
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The Declaration of Independence makes it clear citizens prevent "absolute Despotism". I dig Gandhi's nonviolence/passive resistance methods, but the founding fathers planned on armed citizens as a bulwark.
A civilian defending themselves and loved ones from murderous home invaders, when police are 20 mins away, is a good enough reason. But preventing a totalitarian government requires freedom of speech, religion, assembly and the right to bear arms.
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It's 2016 - people are eating kale like nobody's business, the UN exists, every law abiding citizen over the age of 18 has the right to vote. As much as I think Trump is a maniac with a chance of winning, America's not becoming totalitarian any time soon. And if it does, do you REALLY think an organised militia using their arsenal from Wal*Mart has any chance of overthrowing what the government would have at their disposal?
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In China 2010 a man killed 8 children at a school with only a knife.There would be 10 more similar attacks in the next 2 years. Let's not look for "magic solutions" that lead to Big Brother.
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The knife comparison has always bothered me. Of course you can do damage with a knife - you could with a chainsaw, a car, a match and a deodrant can, a screwdriver, a hammer, a vial of sulphuric acid. The difference is all of those things are tools with a purpose OTHER than to hurt/kill. A gun is purely a tool of pain and death, and buying one gives people the knowledge that they can now inflict pain and death at a distance with minimal effort. Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and a gun is pretty damn powerful.
It's not about coming up with a magic solution to end all murder and crime, it's just about significantly reducing these things.