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Originally posted by The Hunter of Jahanna:
Amending the constitution is easy!! All you need is a 2/3 majority vote in the house and senate,a review of the amendment by the judicial branch and final approval by the executive branch. The only fly in the ointment is getting all of the people involved to agre on ANYTHING. As far as people owning guns in the U.S. is concerned , well it is too late to stop now. If they passed an amendment tomorrow that said everyone had hand over all their guns to the government about half the gun owners in the U.S. would be in jail for disobeying the law and come election time about half of the U.S. law makers would be out on their asses looking for new jobs. Also takeing away guns wont realy stop murders. Like another post on GenCon proves. It is illegal to own certain guns in Austrailia, but Memnoch has a whole laundry list of gun crimes in that countrie. To use the argument that it is harder to kill people without guns is also incorrect. Use Ted Bundy or John Wayne Gacey as examples. The police pulled 30 bodies out of Gaceys crawlspace under his house and not one of them had been shot!! Ted Bundy has been linked to over a dozen murders and also , not a single one of them was shot. Makeing guns illegal wont stop people from killing each other. The only way to prevent murder is to make people not want to kill one another.
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Have you heard of Zero tolerance policy? This is attributed to cleaning up New York City. Many of the hard crims were caught for misdemeanors.
By making it illegal to simply possess a gun, only criminals would carry them. If they are arrested for possessing a gun, the odds are they have commited/will commit other crimes.
Either that or they'd think twice about carrying them.
A child would not be able to get a carelessly hidden gun from their fathers den and take it to school or a gang brawl either.
Safer streets.
While where at it, lets look at the glorification of violence and the message of "no consequences" in film. The number of casual desensetising killings where the killer is a GOOD GUY! (Killing = Good? Since when? and to whom? The person killed?)
Films like 'Desperado' with Antonio Banderas are pathetic, and contribute as much to a society rotting from within, as prevelent gun ownership does.
If you seriously want to fix Americas desperate and cancerous problems, you'll need to start from the ground up.
Which is why I started with this post about the constitution.