| ConservagameR said: You don't need bipartisan support when you can basically just go around it through the courts like with RvW. |
Well... You do. Otherwise the courts will constantly flip-flop on issues. A-la. Abortions.
| ConservagameR said: The gun lobby in the US don't mean much anymore. Even if they weren't there, it's highly unlikely Republicans would agree to ban guns. |
Republicans don't like their "rights" being eroded... Unless it's a demographic that doesn't conform to their ideas. A-la. Abortions.
The Gun Lobby spends about a quarter of a billion a year advertising and promoting guns... Let alone all the unknown "donations" and "benefits they provide under the table.
They also have a membership system which means it will align it's members with politicians that are pro-guns... They even have a ranking system to rank congress members on how friendly they are towards guns on a scale of A to F.
They also have millions of members.
I wouldn't think of them as insignificant that is for sure.
| ConservagameR said: Even if they were crazy enough to throw their support behind it, the gun owners themselves would put a stop to it sooner than later. What you need in this case, is somewhat of a separation, so everyone can do what they wish for the most part in their own location. That's why the US is set up with 50 separate states and a Federal Government that's supposed to be hands off for the most part. |
Nah. Can't have a free-for-all, otherwise it undermines the entire point of a successful gun-control regime.
Remember... Things like Universal Healthcare, Gun Control and other modern-benefits in developed nations have been successful because of the way they were built.
Universal Healthcare in Australia for example is not only cheaper per-capita than the USA, but we get better quality care... Of course the USA "tried" to do something different with Obamacare and that didn't have the intended result... It still baffles the mind on why they would try a different approach on what has already been established and proven to work. It's just silly.
Go with what has been DEMONSTRATED to work successfully and build up from there rather than try and reinvent the wheel, wasting time and money.
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