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Same idea for guns. Buy back guns for $10,000 each. Soon have guns under control and off the streets. People would be breaking into each others houses to sell
by monk_e_boy 9y ago
Same idea for guns. Buy back guns for $10,000 each. Soon have guns under control and off the streets.
People would be breaking into each others houses to sell them.
- oh_sigh 9y agoThat would cost $3T if everyone turned their guns in.
- icebraining 9y agoSoon have guns under control Or, more likely, they would make more guns to compensate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect
- sundvor 9y agoThe implicit step one being that sale of guns / assault rifles were banned, as it should be.
- icebraining 9y agoThe War on Drugs is a testament that simply banning something definitively means it disappears.
- kelnos 9y agoPeople don't get psychologically addicted to guns like they do to most drugs. Gun bans are perfectly successful in drastically reducing gun violence in countries other than the US.
- icebraining 9y agoI don't disagree, but most guns bans in other countries don't include paying $10k per weapon, which is the proposal here.
- thaumasiotes 9y agoPeople are plenty addicted to being paid $10K per to manufacture guns. Who needs to sell them?
- kelnos 9y agoI don't think you get what the word "addicted" means. Also, obviously you need to ban the manufacture of such weapons before you offer to buy them back.