Should guns be outlawed in America?

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spurgeonryan said:

lordmandeep said:
whole discussion is pointless, banning guns would be pointless as there is such a suppply, criminals would be able to get guns for like forever.

What amazes me is all the weapons that are destroyed! The government could save so much money if they would just re-use these weapons. The Military is a big example of this. They will just collect weapons from suspected terrorist while deployed and everntually they just get destroyed, unless they can give them a good reason that they need them.

Arms Dealers make big money selling guns! I know you usually only see it in the movies, but you get the feeling that guns will never be illegal in America. A president may hint at it to make certain sides happy with him, but at the end of the day Special Interest groups and others would never allow that to happen. Political Posturing!

Why would an American arms manufacturer allow the military to become equipped with freely availably foreign weapons? Each M16 costs around $3,000 so each AK-74 in the hands of an American GI would cause them to lose thousands of dollars. Simply put, the arms manufacturers have lobbiests in DC to prevent this sort of thing. Remember kids, the industrial military complex costs America hundreds of billions of dollars a year and is far more influential than the president... didn't Eisenhower warn us about this?