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From a quick Google search (not to be snarky) it seems like they only confiscated about 650,000 guns. There's about 400,000,000 guns in America so I'm not sure

From a quick Google search (not to be snarky) it seems like they only confiscated about 650,000 guns. There's about 400,000,000 guns in America so I'm not sure how good of an argument that is. In addition, Australia is essentially an island. The US is bordered above and below with other countries that also have guns. Not to mention the amount of lost guns due to "boating accidents" that would happen if there's a gun confiscation.

rad_gruchalski 6y ago
> In addition, Australia is essentially an island. The US is bordered above and below with other countries that also have guns. Not to mention the amount of lost guns due to "boating accidents" that would happen if there's a gun confiscation. There’s always a reason not to try, right? It’s not like there are no illegal guns in public hands in Europe or Australia. But it’s not possible to walk in to a store and get an AR-15 on a driving license.
- pedroma 6y ago
  Yeah, but trying to do something in our case would have to be a damned convincing to a whole lot of people. Take a wrong step and we might have a much worse capitol insurrection. Personally I don't feel this is worth doing in America at this point. We already have very well established and optimized drug smuggling operations from Mexico that would benefit very well from a complete federal-level gun ban. The actual criminals would love it being as easy to get an unregisted AR-15 as buying coke from their drug dealer. Meanwhile the private citizen in rural America would have to commit felonies to defend themselves, with the nearest police station half an hour away.
  - rad_gruchalski 6y ago
    I guess it's important to keep in mind who are the people committing gun related crimes. Are there any good write ups / statistics one can recommend which could put things in perspective?

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From a quick Google search (not to be snarky) it seems like they only confiscated about 650,000 guns. There's about 400,000,000 guns in America so I'm not sure

by pedroma 6y ago

rad_gruchalski 6y ago
> In addition, Australia is essentially an island. The US is bordered above and below with other countries that also have guns. Not to mention the amount of lost guns due to "boating accidents" that would happen if there's a gun confiscation. There’s always a reason not to try, right? It’s not like there are no illegal guns in public hands in Europe or Australia. But it’s not possible to walk in to a store and get an AR-15 on a driving license.
- pedroma 6y ago
  Yeah, but trying to do something in our case would have to be a damned convincing to a whole lot of people. Take a wrong step and we might have a much worse capitol insurrection. Personally I don't feel this is worth doing in America at this point. We already have very well established and optimized drug smuggling operations from Mexico that would benefit very well from a complete federal-level gun ban. The actual criminals would love it being as easy to get an unregisted AR-15 as buying coke from their drug dealer. Meanwhile the private citizen in rural America would have to commit felonies to defend themselves, with the nearest police station half an hour away.
  - rad_gruchalski 6y ago
    I guess it's important to keep in mind who are the people committing gun related crimes. Are there any good write ups / statistics one can recommend which could put things in perspective?