Gun Control

[royal_archer]

The problem with your last sentence is that every lunatic was a sane person once. If you arm everybody, you will have more armed lunatics; there’s no way around it.

Edit: At least no way that this society would accept (mental checks for buying guns, etc).

ICXC NIKA

However, the out of the blue gunman is extremely rare. Most gun deaths happen at the hands of criminals with prior arrests or other history of run ins with the law. If you get the criminals off the street, gun crime will drop much faster than if you only disarm potential victims.

 

[royal_archer]

We already have a government that is less than a neck-skin away from tyranny, but it is already too late to even think about guns as the answer. The same mighty machine that won two world wars and (with help from the Pope) faced down the CCCP isn’t going to back down before its own huddled masses. It would meet them with tanks.

You should not assume that if there is a popular uprising that the military would completely side with the tyrants. There are still many in the military who will stand with the American people.

And not every lunatic has easy access to guns. Making that access just slightly more difficult would deter a lot of them.

ICXC NIKA

Lunatics do far more damage with cars than guns. wouldn’t it make more sense to limit their access to cars first?