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Originally Posted by dropnosky
see? even you can actually be more polite when you care to try, thankyou.
Yes, my point about seeing no effect in gun control for several generations has to do with the saturation of weapons in this country, not a form of hypocrisy, try and understand that.
Unless you broke down the door of every single persons home and searched out every hidden weapon, you would never get them all. My own grandmother at 90+ has no less than 4 totally unregistered firearms in her home, 3 from WW2, and one from the 19th century, some kind of scatter gun. And we are not a big gun owning family, though I have owned 3 or 4 black powder guns over the years.
My point with this is that there needs to be time for available guns to become scarcer, to fall into disrepair, to be collected, ect. I think that process would take several generations. That 100 year old scatter gun has been leaning against the wall in an attic the entire time, remnant of the farm the house originally was, and according to my grandmother, she fired it as recently as 1970.
However, even a blanket law of some kind WOULD make a difference in the firearm murders in the country.
If all handguns were outlawed and required to be turned in, what about that 2 3rds of women killed by angry husbands during domestic disputes that would be less likely to be shot in a fit of passion?
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I don't care to try..........and my "politeness" level to you is unchanged. Your perception or your backbone might have changed, however.
Your approach, if measured in generations, has merit f
or the specific type of domestic violence that you refer. Unfortunately, it fails for two specific reasons:
1) It would need to carry some significant strength whereby the number of legal weapons is significantly reduced throughout the country. As you know, under the current political climate, this is impossible.
2) It addresses the domestic violence with handguns that is quite prevalent in society today and seeks to reduce the casualties from that violence. It fails to address the random violence committed by one deranged individual who carefully planned an attack on a large group of sitting ducks.
Now, notice that the thread is all about the second paragraph, as noted above. It is
not about the first paragraph.
Therefore, all I can suggest to you, is that you're right back where you started............no realistic plan to accomplish the goal..........and the need to "do something". Is that "polite" enough for you?
12-17-2012, 07:07 PM
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