pokerboy57
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300 million people in the United States and 100 million guns in civilian hands. Do the math. Gun control is never going to be a reality.
Some who worship the various studies on guns might want to research "Arming America" by Michael A. Bellesiles, it was put forth as a leading authority on guns and used by pro gun control groups, praised and won prestigious awards until a peer review was done and found to be essentially useless.
...what exactly do you hope to accomplish with an expanded background check? I love the gun control logic, lets force law abiding citizens to be even more law abiding. Government studies have already shown expanded background checks will just send criminals to straw buyers and other means so its a big waste of time. So why do gun control advocates keep pushing? Well what they said on CNBC was this was just one step towards additional gun control measures, a foot in the door.
I don't know... maybe because it works :confused3:
Watch the videos for actual experience with gun control.
We brought guns to school to go groundhog hunting after school before going home The area the school was in was a valley, with a lot of a lot of farmland planted in alfalfa. The local farmers welcomed the teenagers hunting their fields after school. It was good for the farmers, good for the teenagers and bad for the groundhogs. The hours after school, before darkness are prime groundhog hunting hours. America in those years was anything BUT a warzone. Extremely peaceful, and all the males I knew in school with a few exceptions owned firearms from age 12 up. That's right, almost all kids owned guns. Usually .22 rifles at age 12, I had a .22 pistol by 14 and a little later a .357 magnum revolver and a high powered centerfire rifle (7.7 jap) and a 16 guage shotgun. Your impression of a warzone is crap.
James K0UA
You can't legislate stupidity. How would gun control have stopped this? Are you saying just take them all away?
How did that registry work out in your country? Eh?
Gun control is a controversial topic on both sides of the boarder. Regardless of what guns you are allowed to own, gun control should prevent children from owning guns and require safe storage of guns. I agree, this is mostly a parenting issue, but the laws set the situation up in the first place.