SocialistSlayer said:
Well 1 because there are already over 400 million guns in circulation in the US. how to plan on making those disappear. 2 even ifif you somehow made hundreds of millions of guns disappear. We have a completely open and pourous southern border. How do you expect we stop the influx of weapons from this dangerous open border. And lastly and most importantly because its an unalianable human right. |
I agreed with your post until that last bit of head-scratching rhetoric. It's not an "unalianable human right," it's a privilege given by legislature. It can be, and often is, taken away for justifiable reasons, which means that it is not inalienable by definition. That is, unless you believe that convicted murderers should be allowed to own firearms.
That aside, hate guns or love guns, an outright ban would take a very long time to have an effect, and that's even assuming that we could stop contraband, which we probably can't. It's simply not a realistic answer.
Personally, though I own rifles and shotguns, I'd love to see handguns disappear. They aren't, though.
The most attractive solution would be to do something about gun culture in the United States but that's not going to happen, either. It's completely ingrained in the psyche of this country, from cowboys to rappers. From a gun violence perspective, it's probably too late for the United States.
