Can the U.S. government realistically confiscate civilian weapons (guns)?
Australia confiscated 650,000 guns.
Murders and suicides plummeted.
Yup.
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Wait..., what? No!!!
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Side: Wait..., what? No!!!
Regretfully, no. What they CAN do is seriously upgrade the penalty for committing a crime with one, or endangering the lives of others with one. They can also bring the second amendment up to date since, when it was written, the most dangerous firearm was a single shot musket with an inaccurate firing rate of about once every 2+ minutes! Handguns and assault rifles with firing rates of over a thousand rounds a minute were unimaginable!. I have little doubt that the founding fathers would have put much more thought into that piece of legislation if they could have imagined anything like that! The Constitution was designed to be changed to fit a growing nation and a changing world. It was NOT written to give the NRA Carte Blanche on the interpretation of it. I have always been a gun owner, was a member of the once proud NRA for many years. Today I consider them a force for domestic terrorism. A shame! Side: Wait..., what? No!!!
Any tyranny will be accomplished WITH assault rifles. The last REAL tyranny in the U.S. was called the "Civil War". Most of us have grown intellectually enough to keep our elected government from that kind of tyranny. The tyranny of today are led by those groups who defy the elected government "by the people", those who think the "majority" means the majority who agrees with THEM. There are those un-American media groups that are able to convince gullible minds that only THEIR point of view is "patriotic". They are no different than the "Brown Shirts", the KKK, or ISIS. Real Americans work WITH their elected government, WITH the WHOLE majority not WITH groups of "Posse" and gun clubs that are armed with the express opinion that THEY should take over the government "Of the people". THEY are the "tyranny" that WE, the majority of the people need to keep from destroying democracy. Side: Yup.
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Regretfully, no. Regretfully?!?! Are you ballistic?!?! Take guns away from law abiding citizens? When there will still be black markets for illegal weapons such as the RPG or flamethrowers (Which it is actually 100% legal to own a flamethrower in America. 'MERICA FUCK YEAH) for criminals? What they CAN do is seriously upgrade the penalty for committing a crime with one But will that stop criminals from committing the crime in the first place... Noooooooooooooooooo. or endangering the lives of others with one. They can also bring the second amendment up to date since, when it was written, the most dangerous firearm was a single shot musket with an inaccurate firing rate of about once every 2+ minutes! Actually they were decently accurate (not as accurate as our current but that was 200 years ago) and they could be reloaded in 30 seconds. Also they could inflict more damage than our current average weapon at a close-medium range. Mainly because the bullet was the diameter of a quarter. And the criminals were trigger happy and liked dat black powder. Handguns and assault rifles with firing rates of over a thousand rounds a minute were unimaginable! And I'm sure our founding fathers (and mothers, we needed them just as much) would look you in the eye and slap you upside the face for thinking they would change their mind about guns. I have little doubt that the founding fathers would have put much more thought into that piece of legislation if they could have imagined anything like that! looks behind myself LINCOLN GET OUT OF BED! SHOW HIM WHAT SOMEONE THAT HAS BEEN SHOT THINKS ABOUT IT. moves for Lincoln to sit, has to type for Lincoln because he knows nothing about computers Had we those weapons during the civil war I would have rejoiced! We would have died quicker and less painful deaths! I got shot and lived to the next morning. God that was painful but had he shot me with a Glock I would have died peacefully. The Constitution was designed to be changed to fit a growing nation and a changing world. It was NOT written to give the NRA Carte Blanche on the interpretation of it. I have always been a gun owner, was a member of the once proud NRA for many years. Today I consider them a force for domestic terrorism. A shame! Is completely confused. Are you supporting gun rights or are stripping them??? Side: Wait..., what? No!!!
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