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Originally Posted by swiss tony
looks like americans are the only ones who can't grasp how detrimental to their own society their gun laws are. i suppose if the majority of americans want guns to be this accessible then let them. then, if a nutter goes mental and wastes some innocents then its just a case of 'you gotta break a few eggs to make an ommelette'. it seems that the americans on this thread aren't sure if they want guns cause they wanna hunt or if its to preserve the constitution and to make the government think twice before it exercises further measures of control. lets face it, as soon as they tighten their gun laws and have a gun amnesty they'll lose the gun culture. then it won't be in joe publics mindset to use guns to solve his problems. its a lot harder to kill someone with cold steel. i bet the parents of the dead students in VA aren't that bothered about tweaking the constitution
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You need to keep in mind that if the US just outlawed guns one day, only the legal, registered guns would get turned in and that'd be by the good, responsible gun owners. The guns owned by criminals are generally not on the books anyways & I can't imagine them all lining up to turn them in.
So if we were to take away our gun rights, all that would be doing is preventing the decent folks from having a way to protect themselves should some nutjob (that didn't turn in his gun) kick in their front door one night with the intent to kill your whole family or rape your wife.
"If guns were outlawed, then only outlaws would have guns."