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As an Australian, my general understanding of the US stance is that: - There's a constitutional right to bear arms so restrictions can only go so far. - If it
by Veratyr 10y ago
As an Australian, my general understanding of the US stance is that:
- There's a constitutional right to bear arms so restrictions can only go so far.
- If it's criminal to own a gun, only criminals will own guns.
- The sheer number of guns in the US is so enormous that it would be near impossible to remove them all.
Unfortunately even if they enacted the same gun control laws used in the UK or Australia, it wouldn't do much in the short term. Long term it'd be a good start but it could take decades to get the genie back in the bottle.
- LyndsySimon 10y ago> If it's criminal to own a gun, only criminals will own guns. Note the implication here - if it becomes criminal to own a gun, many people will become criminals rather than surrender them. > The sheer number of guns in the US is so enormous that it would be near impossible to remove them all. Reports say around 375,000,000, but most people in the firearms community seem to believe those estimates are quite low. > Unfortunately even if they enacted the same gun control laws used in the UK or Australia, it wouldn't do much in the short term. Sure it would - it would make criminals of millions of Americans, including me. I would strongly assume that the enactment of UK- or Australia-style gun bans in the US would immediately precipitate mass civil disobedience at a bare minimum, and would be very likely to start a large-scale insurrection.