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Bottom line: It's our constitutional right to bear arms.
9/11 is a "one off event"? How do you think wars were waged before we had firearms? Jesus Christ man, some of the bloodiest times in recorded history were before firearms even existed.
People will kill people, that's just life. The medium will change as technology changes, but imposing more gun laws will only affect law abiding citizens. What makes yout hink a criminal that is willing to kill someone is going to think, "Well, since they added this nifty $2000 dollar tax to possessing a firearm and made it so I have to wait two years to obtain one, I think I'll just go be a peaceful loving guy now."
This is the stupidest fucking debate you could ever have. Gun regulations only affect law abiding citizens and the criminals that are murdering people wouldn't follow them anyway. How the fuck is that not sinking in?
Well i'm more concerned with the here and now, not past wars.
America is a different issue. The guns are already spread everywhere. If you removed every gun with a magic wand and then made it very difficult to own a weapon then I could see gun laws working in the States. The gun control clearly works in other countries where guns are hard to come by. This is just fact.
I made the same argument as you with knife laws in Victoria. You get an on the spot $1000 fine for carrying anything from a small swiss army knife to a flip knife here. So all law abiding citizens are afraid to carry knives out of fear of getting a fine but any thug who wants to rob you at knife point will carry a knife at any time and get away with it.
I understand what you're saying but my point was that guns make it easy to kill 20-30 people in one go. As witnessed this week. Hijacking planes is out of the question these days and it's not like every psycho can get his hands on one. Every psycho can get his hands on a gun in the US. Yes they can also get their hands on knives and shovels and spatulas but how many people are you gonna kill with a knife before you get jumped as opposed to a handgun...