Originally posted by Carl N. Brown
Ban ARs with millions in circulation.
Gun control writer Robert Sherrill, "The Saturday Night Special", 1975, noted that the net result of a gun ban would be millions of guns dumped on the grey and black market. (This is the USA and remember the prohibitions of alcohol and marihuana?)
In the EU proposals to restrict guns after the Paris attacks, the Czech government acknowledged that a ban on military style civilian guns would simply drive them underground, and not help.
Make ARs a hot black market item, that won't make the public safer.
Carl Brown pretty much hit the nail on the head. I don't understand why people think that if a law is passed, that somehow all the bad stuff will go away. Worked out great with drugs, didn't it? Weve had a "War on Drugs" for 20-some years. Hows that working out for stopping drugs from making it into the country and showing up on the streets?
If it became impossible to buy guns legally, they would be supplied by black market suppliers, just like drugs. There are literally boatloads of full auto guns floating around the world, vastly more than there are semi-autos in private hands in the US.
Sorry, but that ship has sailed. Its a dream to think that simply banning them, even without the legal and constitutional issues of taking peoples property without compensation (or who exactly is going to pay for them if they were paid for at market value?) , and the fact that in the gun banning haven of Australia, only a small percentage of guns in private hands (20-40%?) were actually turned in. Compliance was low, and the US is much more likely to ignore such laws.
The cry is usually "well, it wouldn't have stopped THAT one, bit it
MIGHT stop the next one". Well, maybe, and maybe not. Why is everyone in such a hurry to pass a law they admit up front isn't effective? Whats next when that doest work? (hint, look at Germany with very strict gun laws, they are already talking about them needing to be stricter after some of the recent nonsense). So, whats the real objective? Pass law we know wont help, then continue to pass more until there are no guns? That's the only way I see it stopping anyone getting killed, but then there would have to be house to house searches and seizures. I doubt that would go well or last long.
The premise this thread is based on is flawed. Doesn't matter how fast a semi-auto shoots. What does anyone propose to do about it that would actually change anything? I haven't heard ANY realistic ideas put forth. A ban would be a joke. And widely ignored. And create an entirely new black market and gang enterprise. Great.