>With a murder rate twice any other developed country[1], the United States clearly has a serious violence problem, and taking guns out of the hands of the average Joe would surely help reduce it.
How much or our gun violence do you think can be attributed to average Joe killing his neighbor. Ordinary law abiding citizens killing each other is definitely not what makes our gun homicide rate higher than Australia's.
The vast majority of gun violence happens as a direct result of other crimes, usually drug or gang related-- exactly the kind of people who will find a way to make guns.
Additionally America is not Australia, we have more guns than people. If guns were outlawed the vast majority of criminals would still easily be able to get their hands on guns for the next 50 years. The only thing you would accomplish is to take them away from law abiding citizens, who statistics show aren't the problem anyway.
One more difference between America and Australia. If what happened in Australia happened here (anything like government confiscation), there would be riots, and a serious insurgency (I'm dead serious). There would be so much more blood spilled by an attempt to take away American's guns than could possibly be prevented by doing so.
>Do you have any stats or experience to back that up? It might happen, but you are stating as fact something that's not been tested.
After the violence stopped, yeah the people involved would switch right over to manufacturing underground firearms.
If you haven't lived in a rural area of the U.S., you can't possibly know how serious many people here are about their firearms--hell, it's written into our constitution.
How much or our gun violence do you think can be attributed to average Joe killing his neighbor. Ordinary law abiding citizens killing each other is definitely not what makes our gun homicide rate higher than Australia's.
The vast majority of gun violence happens as a direct result of other crimes, usually drug or gang related-- exactly the kind of people who will find a way to make guns.
Additionally America is not Australia, we have more guns than people. If guns were outlawed the vast majority of criminals would still easily be able to get their hands on guns for the next 50 years. The only thing you would accomplish is to take them away from law abiding citizens, who statistics show aren't the problem anyway.
One more difference between America and Australia. If what happened in Australia happened here (anything like government confiscation), there would be riots, and a serious insurgency (I'm dead serious). There would be so much more blood spilled by an attempt to take away American's guns than could possibly be prevented by doing so.
>Do you have any stats or experience to back that up? It might happen, but you are stating as fact something that's not been tested.
After the violence stopped, yeah the people involved would switch right over to manufacturing underground firearms.
If you haven't lived in a rural area of the U.S., you can't possibly know how serious many people here are about their firearms--hell, it's written into our constitution.