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Old 03-10-2018, 06:18 PM   #585
whomario
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Originally Posted by tarcone View Post
There was a record number of murders in St. Louis last year. Most by hand guns. So after we ban AR-15 type guns, do we go after hand guns next? And how do we enforce the ban? Is the government going house to house and searching every citizen for the banned guns?

All this talk is great. But how is it going to work? Is it long game? We ban them now and in 30 years they will be gone after more mass shootings allow the government to find them all?

How do you enforce a ban of guns? How is the ban on ownership of guns for felons working?

This is the same old "if you can't eliminate it 100%, why bother" nonsense that gets floated eventually every time in this debate. Do Police catch everybody running a red light or going over the speed limit ? Or driving drunk ?

In the end it shouldn't even be about a total ban or anything, that isn't even the point nor would it work (see: Prohibition). The point is reducing it to a degree where it will make a difference in the long run.

But it is a government's job to make sure there is a balance between "personal freedom" and "safety for everybody". This includes not allowing people to drive drunk (no matter how super-good they still think they can do it and no matter how inconvenient this is), not allowing people to set open fires wherever they want them, a million other things and quite frankly should include regulating the distribution and use of deadly weapons. When i then see an organization suing a regional government for setting the minimum age for the purchase of a military-grade piece of weaponry at the same number as the legal drinking limit, i gotta ask: What in the hell is wrong over there ?

Right now the US has a unique mentality towards Guns being every-day items for pretty much everybody rather than dangerous objects that ultimately shouldn't be pretty much distributed the same way you do household wares. I mean, why the actual fuck are they being sold at Walmart being displayed next to fishing rods and footballs, rather than at specialty-stores only ?

Most European countries (and Germany especially) for example actually do have quite a lot of guns, hunting is still popular in many parts (as is sports shooting). But there are strict rules on how to sell them, get them and keep them as well as strict limitations to stuff like magazine size, also rules like only being allowed to transport them in the cargo hold unloaded. All these things make sure everybody is aware that Guns are not in fact the same as, say a kitchen knife. You don't have kids seeing guns on a regular basis growing up with a mindset they are normal. Neither do you have 19 year olds being able to just go up and buy a handgun, much less sth the military uses, on a whim because he feels like it.
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Last edited by whomario : 03-10-2018 at 06:36 PM.
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