15-10-2015, 18:11
Not trying to pick a fight MH - just think the status quo has to change or the end results never will. Maybe all the states should get together and decide the best way forward. Not an easy thing to do I am sure but at the moment no-one is doing anything. Like I said, if the citizens of the United States believe they have the right to bear arms then that same rule applies to the nutters as well. Maybe there should be an age limit??? That would reduce the amount of killings by a significant amount already. I don't have the solution, but at the same time if something is not done it is just going to get worse. I have never been to the US but a mate of mine just returned from a holiday in Frisco, and as it happens he was staying with a cop friend of his who told him 10 or 20 shootings a week in Oakland was not unusual??!!?? In the UK they had a gun amnesty - if you turned in an illegal firearm - you were OK. The crime rate actually went up after this, including gun crime. BUT - when they said - OK you have had your chance to redeem yourself - now the law is going to get tough on people found possessing arms - the gun crime rate plummeted, because now the two-faced lawyers could not protect them anymore. As for the 300 million guns that are out there - I don't know - maybe offer them a substantial amount of money for them and send them to the poor defenceless citizens who are being slaughtered by ISIS on a daily basis. It will be a hell of a lot cheaper than sending over troops.
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