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Originally Posted by Peaches
'splain to me how you plan on getting rid of guns in the US? The only people turning them in would be law abiding citizens which would leave the criminals with them....and the law abiders with no way to protect themselves.
The US attempting to get rid of guns would be a criminal's wet dream.
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Stop it, you're making too much sense. The board senso-meter can't handle the load.
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To the topic--
I was about to say something similar as Peaches actually. Since criminals don't abide by laws there is no reason to believe they would abide by any law banning weapons. Anyone who believes the crooks will happly queue up to turn in their weapons has his or her head up his or her ass. Such a law would only disarm the law-abiding section of society leaving them at the mercy of how fast (or slow) the cops can get to them.
There are better ways of spending the millions that it takes to enforce such laws. More education, more mandatory gun safety & training courses, stricter penalties for those commiting gun safety infractions, more funding into the gun registry program etc etc.
A country with a small and basically friendly population like Australia can certainly have some success by disarming their citizens I suppose, but the US is a different sort of entity with a different history and culture. Since Canada is on it's border we get a fair amount of US culture influencing us, so a different line of attack on the problem is called for.
I always say, one of you people advocating for a ban on guns would change your tune pretty quick if a couple of armed assholes in ski masks broke into your home one night, tied you up and proceeded to rape your wife and daughter and steal you blind. You'd be sitting there praying that you had of kept a gun in the house.
Personally I don't own a gun. But I like to think that if I ever felt the need to get one, I could. Legally. I like the fact that I have a right to bear arms, because the bottom line is.... the crooks don't give one ripe crap about your gun laws. Not one. I'm sure they're overjoyed at the thought of a completely disarmed society. Are you?