Mexico Drug War: Your Thoughts?

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Mr Khan said:

HappySqurriel said:

dany612 said:
I think gun ownership should have far more restrictions or be illegal. So many crimes would of never happened because many buy them not to protect but to hurt.

What percentage of those guns were bought legally?

Did you realize that anyone could make an AK47 and ammunition in their garage using readily available materials and tools? Do you really think that making them illegal will prevent criminals from having them?

Certainly there's hard gun-crime, which this thread is meant to address, and against which legislation would be ineffective. Soft gun crime, however, like domestic violence that ends up utilizing a gun, could be greatly curbed, but that is for another day.

That wouldn't stop crimes from happening though.  Just GUN crimes.

Instead of someone getting shot, someone gets stabbed.

Or... just someone gets shot with a hunting rifle, since some sort of gun would have to be legal.