Gun control

[Rahul]

What I don't understand is the mindset of "Criminals will have guns so we need guns to protect us from them." Rather than trying to take guns out of the hands of criminals (which if we'd have more effective background checks it help, but they oppose that as well), they think that it's better to arm everyone. So they're focused on winning a shootout rather than avoiding a shootout in the first place. Which leads to them bringing up ridiculous suggestions like making sure every teacher is armed.

Well here's the issue. In a perfect world type scenario is different than in the real world. We can't avoid the "shootouts".

There are what, around 200 million registered guns in the US? No telling how many additional guns other than that.

So do we make it more difficult to buy guns or certain guns? Ok, what about the 200 million plus already here? Do we confiscate those from law abiding citizens? We wouldn't even know who owns what with a heck of a lot of them. Anyone can sell their gun to anyone else with no paperwork. I bought a rifle over twenty years ago from a guy with no paperwork being involved. The government wouldn't know I owned it.

There is NO WAY the United States can cleanse all guns out of the country. Even if we could magically make all existing guns in the US today disappear, how are we going to keep guns from coming in?

We can't keep drugs from being smuggled into the US. We can't keep illegal immigrants out. How on earth could we keep guns out of our borders?

We can't.

So no matter what laws are passed, guns are going to be in the US. Making guns more difficult for law abiding citizens to possess is only going to reduce the number of law abiding citizens with guns. It's not going to keep guns out of the hands of criminals.

It would be great if we could make all guns on the planet go away. World peace would be great too. Unfortunately neither of these things are going to happen.

We can bicker over gun laws or what if ideas about a perfect world, but it's not going to change the fact that we CAN'T get rid of guns. They're already here to stay. Laws aren't going to change that.