If they banned any kind of gun, criminals would ignore that law anyway. If the government confiscated the guns, it would merely prop up a huge underground black market for guns, flooding the streets with illegal weapons from arms dealers oversees. The criminal element will get their weapons regardless.
Cocaine is illegal and is the most controlled substance on Earth. It has huge, government agencies like the ATF, FBI, and DEA spending billions of dollars every year in a losing battle over drug importation and control. What makes us believe they could control the flow of illegal weapons into this country? Who is the victim of the bans?; the people who follow the law and unarm themselves.
There are about 276 million legally owned guns in the US right now, owned by about 220 million Americans! I often ask myself after hearing of a gun crime, 'how would an additional law have prevented it?'
Just my opinion, and at least for now, I still have a right to one.
Sunday, July 26, 2009
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