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hack89

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2. There are no poppy or coca farms in America

Reply to drm604 (Reply #1)

Fri Dec 21, 2012, 06:29 AM

Dec 2012

yet no shortage of cocaine and heroin. Guns and ammo are manufactured globally. If cartels can smuggle drugs by the pallet load, then handguns and ammo are not a problem.

Besides - there are 300 million fire arms already within our borders. They are not going to magically disappear.

Criminals will always get guns.

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how do we keep the war on guns from being like the war on drugs? [View all] DonCoquixote Dec 2012 OP

The two things really aren't comparable. drm604 Dec 2012 #1

There are no poppy or coca farms in America hack89 Dec 2012 #2

Other countries manage it somehow. drm604 Dec 2012 #3

By mass producing relatively cheap semi-autos... Thor_MN Dec 2012 #6

That's because there's simply no demand for fully-automatic weapons. LAGC Dec 2012 #9

I really hate to say it, but fully automatic AK designs can be made with not much machinery at all. Thor_MN Dec 2012 #5

True enough DonCoquixote Dec 2012 #7

I'm in Favor of a War on WAR.... Iggy Dec 2012 #4

Mexico would start running drugs AND guns north. ileus Dec 2012 #8

nobody is seriously proposing prohibition of all guns Warren Stupidity Dec 2012 #10

Drugs are physically addicting, guns aren't. Make the risks of criminal gun possession jmg257 Dec 2012 #11