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This isn't like a lot of places. There are hundreds of millions of guns here. A powerful gun lobby, and the right to own them is built into the foundation of our laws. And a significant portion of the population has made it clear any attempt to seize their guns will lead to violence. The vast majority of guns owners statistically speaking are also nonviolent people that will never use their guns to harm another person.There were guns in most of Europe and Australia in the past and we were able to change our laws to ban most people form having a lot of unnecessary guns. I dont see why something cannot me changed for the better, you just need people to realize it just doesn't make sense for things to continue the way they are.
Casual people don't need hand guns and assault rifles for instance.
It would massively reduce the number of mass shootings and other ridiculous events like this one happening.
It just comes off as such pointless moral grandstanding to us when people that aren't from here say just get rid of the guns. It is not possible. In the history of gun ownership, what country has banned citizens from owning guns and seized them from the general population AFTER there were more guns than the total population of the country? The answer is such a thing has never, ever happened.
And the people advocating it have no plan for how such a thing could be done without starting a civil war. Which isn't a hypothetical, but something that WILL happen if they try to just seize most of the guns en masse. We already have laws against criminals owning guns. Most of our mass shootings are committed by people that don't have a criminal record, or have acquired a gun illegally. So we get annoyed when this is brought up because its so hilariously impractical. Even if most of the citizens wanted to remove guns from society, which they don't, there isn't a way to seize hundreds of millions of guns practically and without massive bloodshed.