Don't get me wrong I respect the constitution and the requirements to change it. I never advocated some slime tactic or runaround legal procedure that would ban all guns. The registration system, if implemented as I intended, would never go after law-abiding gun owners. As far as outright bans go sometimes they do make sense locally. In cities with very high gang violence I think a gun ban makes sense if the gang members are mostly killing each other. A gun ban allows the local police to confiscate the guns and arrest these individuals preventively even if these gang members have no prior criminal record. Whether these local gun bans are in contradiction with the vaguely worded 2nd amendment is up to the Supreme Court to decide, not you. In the meantime, if you are truly a law abiding citizen as you claim to be, then you just have to respect and follow the local laws that are on the books or move somewhere else that's more to your liking. As far as the 2nd amendment being repealed (which BTW mentions "arms", not "guns"), wouldn't it take over 2/3 majority in congress, not to mention strong public support? I just don't see that happening. If in Canada or Britain they had a gun ban, I'm sure the majority of the public supported it. After all those are democratic countries too. I don't know about Britain, but last time I checked Canada still has a pretty high gun ownership and they're big into hunting. They just might have restrictions on where they can carry those guns, probably not in the public.

In summary there's no evidence that shows that a gun ban or plentiful guns always lead to more or less violence. Like I said each location is unique and it has more to do with the mentality of the people there, and less with whether they have guns. Guns are a very gray issue, not black and white like many people see them.

FYI I'm not strictly anti-gun, but I don't care for them either. I just want to feel and be safe. While it comforts me that most of my neighbors probably have guns and therefore burglaries are probably less likely in my neighborhood, it also concerns me how easy it is to get a gun and kill someone. It's definitely a double-edged sword issue for me.

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