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Ok, here is my take, as an Obama voting Dem who SURPRISE - owns a lot of guns (we can't let the GOP have all the fun). I own a FN SCAR, Walther PPS, FN 5.7, Ed Brown Kobra Carry, and a few others.
A firearms ban is just so dumb and out there when you consider history and the present situation.
First, alcohol consumption by private citizens has contributed more death and misery in this country than firearms, and it isn't even close. People rape, maim, assault and kill people in this country due to the impact of alcohol every single day. Are we going to ban alcohol? Of course not. Did we try? Yes. Did it work. Hell no.
Banning firearms is Prohibition 2.0. Put simply, the demand for firearms is enormous, much like the demand for alcohol prior to prohibition (Exhibit A: 2,000,000+ gun purchase in the state of Kentucky alone last year). If a firearm ban is in place, people will simply buy them in the unregulated black market, enriching the coffers of those in organized crime. And oh yea, the thugs in South Side Chicago are gona love it, because the Korean grocery store owner with a mini-mart there can't have a shot gun behind the counter to protect himself.
Secondly, unless you want a civil war, stop the ban firearms nonsense. Try confiscating weapons from armed militias in Northern Michigan. You thought Waco was bad? Shit, it would be absolute chaos.
Take PRAGMATIC approaches to gun ownership, like we do with other "deathly pleasures", e.g., alcohol and cigarettes. That is the only solution. Anyone who proposes a complete firearm ban, or even worse, confiscation, is delusional and should have their head examined. Learn from history. The populace is already heavily armed, so a ban is just not gonna work under any reality, alternative or otherwise. It didn't work for alcohol, and it sure as hell isn't gonna work for firearms.
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