The ESA Concludes Its Violent Video Game Discussion With Vice President Joe Biden

[Mr Khan]

bouzane said:

xwan said:
Even if guns are "NOT" the problem it provides a easy mean to kill alot of people quickly, It should be completely ban amongst civilians like in Japan. They haven't had a gun death forever.

1. Gun prohibition would be impossible to implement in America today.

2. Gun prohibition would allow gangs to expand further into lucrative gun trafficking.

3. Gun prohibition rarely impacts crime rates in a positive fashion.

4. Gun prohibition removes the public's ability to defend against tyranny.

5. Successful gun prohibition requires an extremely large and powerful central government, something that is easily abused.

6. Guns have other purposes, home defense, hunting and sporting are great reasons to own guns. Just because you don't enjoy these freedoms doesn't mean you should be calling for others to forfeit their rights.

Why not address the actual issues at hand instead of applying a band-aid solution to a symptom? America's gun violence problem stems from a culture of fear coupled with drug prohibition. The elimination of drug prohibition would result in drastically reduced organized crime (it's their main source of income) which in turn would result in less gun violence. Properly addressing the fear culture would be much more difficult to achieve in an ethical fashion. The most effective way would be to create a regulatory body to prevent the media from publishing so many hysterical and sensational news items. This would be difficult to achieve without causing state sponsored censorship which I oppose strongly.

Next, we can look to nations such as China to see what prohibition achieves in less than ideal circumstances. Without guns criminals simply use explosives in the PRC and to great effect. Additionally, explosives are far more effective in acts of terror as well. The complete elimination of firearms would do little to limit acts of terror as the components required for an IED are easy to access and impossible to ban.

Unless you correct the underlying problems than American society will never be like that of Japan, ever. Finally, I'd rather live in Russia than a nanny-police state like Japan so even if you could do so, I'd never want to see it happen.

I will continue to ridicule the bolded point. Because it is not reflected in any way by modern history, unless its an action of regional government against national government (the American revolution doesn't count, because for all intents and purposes that was a rebellion of local government versus national government, not of people versus government. Nor for that matter does our Civil War)

Russia and Japan are equally as "nanny-state" btw. Japan is just much more effective and civilized about it