(12-07-2024, 01:04 AM)The Drifter Wrote: ...an inconvenient truth

The list above shows guns are far from our largest problems. To add to this a couple ideas.

According to FBI stats 80-85% of the gun deaths are by convicted felons who should not have a gun. By enforcing this law 80-85% of the issue will be solved. When solving a problem take out the biggest slice first right?

Next, in the 20's we had the temperance movement. That led to the rise of organized crime and was repealed as the government failed to withhold alcohol from the public.  Next came the war on drugs. We all know how that came out. It suffered the same fate as prohibition. What we should learn is the government cannot keep law breaker (or felons evidently) from breaking the law. What will be accomplished by removing guns? I can see a couple results. 

Honest law abiding people will no longer have guns, they will be defenseless against the criminals who will have them. 
The largest portion of the problem will not be addressed - 85% (they already have a law for this, no new law is required)
Remove the ability to defend themselves from the Government. That way you are able to create a police state and total local control.

The writers of the Constitution got it right.

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