12-23-2012, 02:58 AM
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(12-22-2012, 11:01 PM)Holdem Wrote:Well yeah... There's a lot of places with very high crime/homicide rates in the US, like Chicago (guns are banned here, and it is the #1 crime and homicide rate in the US) and places like LA (strict gun laws). But if you go to states with loose gun laws (Arizona, New Mexico, Texas etc.) Crime is actually fairly low and guns are used in self/home-defense more often than offense.(12-22-2012, 10:57 PM)Slick Rick Wrote:(12-22-2012, 09:15 PM)Holdem Wrote: By stopping the circulation of guns we won't acomplish anything. The only way the US can "Sanitize" it's weapons is by obliging everyone to hand in their weapons that are bigger than a pistol. The US I'm pretty sure keeps a record of all weapons sold and such. If you haven't handed in your weapon by whatever day, police take it by force and fine you.
This, in my opinion, is the only way the US can sanitize it's cities. Sure, there will still be illegal weapons around and it will increase the black market sale of these automatic weapons... But still, I'm pretty sure 10% of automatic-semiautomatic rifles is better than 100%.
Just my two cents.
Not really the "Land of the Free" anymore if the government can force us to hand in things that we own.
They should/can always issue a "Compensation" fund for this. Anyway if you let people be free and do whatever they want, more lives will be lost. The USA is the only country in which these types of shootings occur... And it seems it happens more and more often. Highschool massacre, the cinema massacre, then a school massacre... Several shootouts. To be honest I would rather live in a country in which you aren't allowed to have a firearm than one in which you are, even if I'm carrying my gun around.