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Originally Posted by notinmybackyard
A. Get rid of violent video games and then new assault weapons won't seem cool
B. Triple all prison sentences for recreational drug possession with no possibility of parole. Death penalty for dealers/growers/etc
C. Destroy the socialists and communists that both infest our universities and protect transnational corporations from having to deal with competition from a completely free open market.
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I can truly understand nearly all your arguments here from YOUR point of view.
also in EVERY country in the world it have gun collectors who owns guns.
but those people are the exemption and not the rule. AND they get a really really hard check.
I hardly can believe that in US have so many collectors.
As a citizen I HAVE TO BELIEVE also that a policemen who legally owns a gun will never use it for anything else than it is thought for.
I have NO GUARANTEE that this will be the case always and as you see it also happens but MUCH less.
the argument of gun owners is always that something CAN happen even when you take guns away or control them harder.
but THIS risk we have in all and everything - we do not even know if the guy who drives a cars is not drunk.
so it will NEVER gives a guarantee in ALL cases but in the MOST.
If there would be 20.000 less deads (what is a bit more than the half) we talk about 20.000 individuals who have the right to live.
20.000 where all their parents, brothers, sisters and friends (what are millions at the end) wo do not have to suffer.
i think it is worth it.
and here is an additional APPROVED thought:
less guns will produce fewer locked-up people. you would not believe how many are in US jails because they did ONE TIME a mistake and did not even kill but injure someone with a gun.
the costs per inmate to the US taxpayer are between 25 and 60 THOUSAND dollars per year.
now calculate that by 2.3 million (us have the highest number of inmates per 100 k citizen in the world) and you will see that there is even a positive economical effect.