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In reply to the discussion: Can a country with open borders EVER ban guns? [View all]cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)That's the detail people like you seem to dismiss when you call for a ban on all guns. If you had read my post in its entirety you'd have seen the part where I said if you came to get my guns after changing the law, I'd give them up. What have you done by way of changing the law so I can't own a firearm? Have you contributed a single dollar, or authored a single sentence in a place other than here?
If you ban sane, reasonable, law-abiding citizens from owning guns, the people who want guns for the wrong reasons will still get them, and without batting an eye. That's the other detail people like you dismiss. You seem to think banning guns will put an end to bad people being bad. It won't. I can get an illegal gun by the end of this day. And I'm not a bad person... I just know people who know bad people. In fact, I can buy a pound of good weed today, put it in the bathroom with a humidifier for a couple hours so it gets heavier from the moisture, and make enough profit from it to guy two guns tomorrow. You think banning guns will make it so I couldn't do that? Wherever do you get the notion that you're going to be safer after banning guns than you are before banning them? Ban crime. That's the ticket Hoyt; ban crime. Make it illegal to commit a crime, and double-plus illegal to commit a crime with a gun. Oh wait...