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Originally Posted by David Sklansky
The reason why good arguments for gun control don't seem to be as persuasive as they deserve to be, is that there are many people who are in fact persuaded, but pretend not to be, solely because they worry that they themselves will be stopped from arming themselves to the degree they desire. If they somehow knew that they personally would not be affected they would have no trouble abandoning their stated opposition.
This is a real thing in the RKBA world. Fudds, who support controlling/limiting firearms they, personally, do not own.
At the end of the day, most people operate in basic self-interest, very VERY few operate on (in spite of talking a big game about) some carefully sussed-out idealogical premise.
The bottom line with guns in the US is a matter of scale.
The scale of gun ownership in this country is utterly incomprable to anywhere else, ergo all arguments about 'controlling' themby comparing Japan to the US are likewise incomprable.
320,000,000 firearms, (essentially) all of them "unregistered" (contrary to the dialog in 1980's New York City based TV cop shows), they're an existential part of our reality. Write whatever law you want on a sheet of paper, they're not going anywhere and there are enough committed gun owners that legislating them into a criminal class would cause
serious social upheval.
The pain of banning them all would be worse than the pain of dealing with them. That's one part of the equation that anti gun rights people never want to square up with.
There are enough gun owners in the US that even if 99% complied with a blanket ban, the 1% of 1% on the fringes willing to do something about it are great enough in number that it would be... "interesting" ... to put it mildly. The upside is that those people probably wouldn't be targeting schools for retribution, so there's that... and a highly relevant X factor is that the police in the United States trend towards being Pro RKBA, you'd have major problems enforcing it. Many simply wouldn't... and I don't think the lesbian cat ladies, cardigan sweater wearing vegan hipsters with the black frame glasses or blue haired crystal worshipping college students who are the loudest anti gun rights proponents will be handling any of the 'round-up' themselves.
Last edited by LOLOL; 12-03-2021 at 06:31 PM.