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We would see lesser and lesser criminal activity, finally to a point of where there is almost no crimes anymore? Why? because every time a criminal attempts to assault or hurt someone, they would face armed response. Within a few years, most criminals would be most likely killed or wounded by armed citizens, or rounded up and thrown into prison.

If we are to legalize all guns, remember, we better crack down on gun CRIME. I want to be able to own any weapon I want. HOWEVER, if anybody decides to commit evil with these weapons, the law better come down on the criminals themselves as hard as an axe. That means prison, NO PAROLE, and Bubba in the next cell. Simple as that.

In the present day, it is completely the opposite:barf: Guns are restricted, while criminals who commit crimes with guns are walking the streets as freely as you and me and any other normal person.:barf:
 
Fatelk is right, we DO need some control mechanisms, and most posters are missing a huge point.

The original post referred specifically to the "20,000 GUN laws". Removing all the gun laws would not remove laws on murder, rape, assault, terrorism or legions of other evils.

In two different communities, I have seen the results when the police went on strike, which amounted to suspending ALL the laws for a short time...just 24 hours in one case, and a couple of days in the other. It was mayhem, and no sane person would take a vehicle out of his driveway. 80 or 90 mph speeders on residential streets, booze parties on (ON!) major intersections, traffic lights shot out or blown up, break-ins and beatings galore, the "bar scene" totally out of control with knifings and gang fights, you name it. All this started-up INSTANTLY with the beginning of the strikes.

If the gun laws were voided, we'd still have the police presence, but we also have the barely-restrained nut fringes of society just waiting for their opportunity. "It'll die down soon", say some. Maybe so, but who's going to explain to the families of the victims that are harmed or killed as we wait for it "die down"?

Personally, I'd much prefer to see a good, simple, CONSISTENT set of sane gun laws country-wide in our land, which would ease the legal uses for the good folks and REALLY smack-down the evil and crooked.

On the issue of bringing back dueling, "There is no honor among thieves", which lets-out the crooks as far as the "Code Duello" goes, and it could lead to those who simply want to kill developing higher-than-average abilities just for killing purposes, and embarking on a career of semi-"legal" murder. This situation has already occurred in history, and I have no doubt it would arise again.

After my fifty years of living in Canada, believe me, we here in the USA have it better than many are aware.......MUCH better, even with the current mish-mash of wildly-varying gun laws. Would I like it better with some good changes? You betcha. As it is, I'm in shooter heaven compared to that socialistic country to our North.
 
I think that there would be a brief (five years, tops, no more) period of dramatically increased violence along the border, among gangsters, and in dangerous parts of the country.
After that though, things would either level out or get better as people start to take a stand against crime.

Hopefully, things would get better in schools as well.
 
Well the deadliest school murder was in 1928, back when you could buy all the guns you want through mail order.

Oh.... wait..... that crime didn't involve any guns........
 
What would happen...

The NRA could cease wasting money on lobbying and could return to it's former occupation as a promotor and sanctioning body for the shooting sports.

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Mayors Fenty and Daley could go ommmph off somewhere else with lil' gov. Blago sucking his thumb behind
them. Oh, wait--they all seem to be doing that already since Heller came down...

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The 'Million Moms' that remain active could learn bridge to keep busy *IF* they could find a fourth person to play with them.



The non-gun people would never notice or care as they are largly convinced that everyone can just buy class III's at some mystical 'gun store' or 'gun show' or 'easily convert' any non machine gun into one with a popsicle stick anyway.



And the gun nuts would quickly find out that full-auto isn't all that big of a mystical deal. Fun, but burns ammo like a big block v8 with dual quads eats gas.
 
Neo-Luddite said:
The 'Million Moms' that remain active could learn bridge to keep busy *IF* they could find a fourth person to play with them.
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{...after a while, Brian gets up and climbs back into his chair, gasping for breath}
 
Of course, the black panthers would arm themselves with M240s and open fire on cities wholesale. And politicians would be executed left and right. (GCA68 anyone?)

:rolleyes:

It all goes back to racist fear.
 
The NRA would become the sanctioning body of most if not all shooting sports. More criminals would die. Drug gangs would become private armies (as if they are not already on the southern border). Stupid people would die. Immature kids would shoot each other more. Reloading supplies would be sold everywhere. The antis might actually leave the country. That's about it.
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Gah, "private armies." Send in the Marines and we'll see how tough the Mexican drug gangs' "private armies" are.

If we actually got the balls to DO something about it, we could shut down every drug running operation on the border within a week. Ditto for any gang-army that might form in this hypothetical future.
 
Aside from a slight uptick in gang violence, as well as previously-mostly-benign gangs getting into the violence gig, I suspect there'd be a marked decrease in crime.
 
the petty crimes committed to steal the guns would disappear. The violence would increase mildly at the worst, before you start seeing old granny out on the porch with her AK making sure the skateboard punks don't throw fireworks at her mailbox ever again. Then, it would be a very awkward time of the same ol' 'guns are bad HUUUUUR!!!' versus 'state and individual rights, and we have more money than you HUUUUURR!!!" debates.
 
Hey Zoogester.

Hey there:
Zoogster may have a good idea. Why not ? lets make a place near each large city and put up signs, (I make signs) That say leagal killing fields for gang bangers. Let them weed them selves out. We could even offer free grave sites. May the best shooters win.

They do not want to buy guns anyway . They would rather steal them.
Not much of a gang banger if ya had to go "buy" a gun. Oh well they are gonna do what they are gonna do. Our government has never even try'd to put an end to that type of thing. They are too busy keeping you and I in line.
 
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