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Originally Posted by Sly
The War on Drugs has been a wonderful success.
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Exactly. It's an impossible task even with billions spent.
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Originally Posted by AdultKing
Do what we did, have a gun amnesty and destroy every automatic and semi automatic weapon. Then secure your border.
Australia has a much bigger border to control than the US, it's our whole coastline spanning oceans and straits with south east asia at our door.
If Australia can (mostly) do it with less far less resources and man power than the US has then the US can do it.
It's all about political will.
But at the end of the day it doesn't affect me directly. I don't live in a country where the right to own a sub machine gun outweighs the right of people not to be mowed down by one.
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How many gang members or street thugs do you think would turn in their guns voluntarily? They would just wait for all the law abiding people to turn in their guns and then declare open season on them.
US coastline is almost as long as Australia's. If you add US coastal borders with land borders the US has a much longer border than Australia's. But that is beside the point. There are far more people crossing by land than coming in by sea. If every illegal in the US right now came in with a gun or two that is tens of millions of illegal guns right there alone.
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