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On the contrary, the cheap solution is "assume there's a way to make guns hard to get in America. See, isn't that better?" Yes, maybe it would be better, but yo
by ef4 14y ago
On the contrary, the cheap solution is "assume there's a way to make guns hard to get in America. See, isn't that better?" Yes, maybe it would be better, but you assumed away the hard part.
There are already 300 million guns in America, and a deeply entrenched culture in favor of keeping them. That is the initial condition we have to work with. Saying "just be more like country X" isn't a solution at all.
- klrr 14y agoTotally true, one solution though could be to pay people to turn in guns, this won't work in practice probably though.
- jfoster 14y agoOther countries have done that. Of course it won't be perfect but it's a good first step. Keep in mind that you wouldn't need to collect every single gun. You just need to shut off the supply and make the black market ones difficult to find.
- ef4 14y agoLocal police departments do gun buybacks all the time in the US. https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&q=gun+buyback https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws... Sometimes with amusing results: http://www.ammoland.com/2011/03/29/pro-gun-activists-outbid-police-in-gun-buy-back/#axzz2Du9Tnoql http://www.ammoland.com/2011/03/29/pro-gun-activists-outbid-...