Posted by: Kiddo April 10, 2013
Login in to Rate this Post:
0 
? 
?
Rethink, Bittertruth, et all:
We have a fundamental difference on understanding things. I am not saying my way is right, it's just that you aren't seeing the thing I am trying to say here...and it might go in my side as well, of course.
If it was up to me, sure, I would never ever let the human kind invent any guns or nuclear war heads. But we have to talk about matter of practicality, even if you completely ban guns, you know that won't happen. Prohibition has never worked and it will never work. Drugs are still illegal in most of the countries, why then do we have such a huge problem with drug usage and smuggling? You take away the source of drugs (or guns) and people will synthesize crystal meth in their own basement.You take away guns, illegal guns will pop up from other countries, this will never stop. It actually will create a black market, and you know what's going to happen; criminals will be the only one with access to guns. Besides, the issue with over 300M guns in existence in the continental US, that's not a small issue.
You say, we have to start somewhere. You compared it to giving up with AIDS cure. I am trying to tell you that it is not even comparable. It's not about achieving an improbable, it's about not wasting time on impossible. And given the present socio-political climate of the world, this task is impossible. Not only it is impossible, it's You try to stop gun sales, it will come up even bigger- that's the power of criminal incentives.
The issue I have with these ban-the-gun group is that they are channelling their focus on wrong target. They come up with numbers to show that US has significantly high gun violence as oppose to countries like UK where handguns are prohibited. But they miss the point that it's not just prohibition of gun that did it. If that were the case, why does Switzerland has one of the lowest case of gun violence while they rank third in the world for highest number of guns per citizen.
So what's the issue they should focus on? I have theories but they are merely theories: May be it's a social thing than legal thing, maybe focusing less on dramatic coverage of such violence would help? Point is, we should shift our focus towards understanding this issue better, do more research. One thing I know for sure-through statistics-is that banning the gun (or even assault weapon) is not going to cut it.
We have a fundamental difference on understanding things. I am not saying my way is right, it's just that you aren't seeing the thing I am trying to say here...and it might go in my side as well, of course.
If it was up to me, sure, I would never ever let the human kind invent any guns or nuclear war heads. But we have to talk about matter of practicality, even if you completely ban guns, you know that won't happen. Prohibition has never worked and it will never work. Drugs are still illegal in most of the countries, why then do we have such a huge problem with drug usage and smuggling? You take away the source of drugs (or guns) and people will synthesize crystal meth in their own basement.You take away guns, illegal guns will pop up from other countries, this will never stop. It actually will create a black market, and you know what's going to happen; criminals will be the only one with access to guns. Besides, the issue with over 300M guns in existence in the continental US, that's not a small issue.
You say, we have to start somewhere. You compared it to giving up with AIDS cure. I am trying to tell you that it is not even comparable. It's not about achieving an improbable, it's about not wasting time on impossible. And given the present socio-political climate of the world, this task is impossible. Not only it is impossible, it's You try to stop gun sales, it will come up even bigger- that's the power of criminal incentives.
The issue I have with these ban-the-gun group is that they are channelling their focus on wrong target. They come up with numbers to show that US has significantly high gun violence as oppose to countries like UK where handguns are prohibited. But they miss the point that it's not just prohibition of gun that did it. If that were the case, why does Switzerland has one of the lowest case of gun violence while they rank third in the world for highest number of guns per citizen.
So what's the issue they should focus on? I have theories but they are merely theories: May be it's a social thing than legal thing, maybe focusing less on dramatic coverage of such violence would help? Point is, we should shift our focus towards understanding this issue better, do more research. One thing I know for sure-through statistics-is that banning the gun (or even assault weapon) is not going to cut it.