cost/benefit of banning the AR15 and overall making guns difficult to acquire? Pretty high. Guns are mainly hobby/fetish devices with little economic value. And with easy access to guns, people in public areas don't really have control over their fate.
Put another way...
following 9/11, the US government set up a vast surveillance system that among other things analyzed people's flight patterns, looking for instance for one way tickets over long distances and other patterns used by the terrorists.
Why can't a system like this be in place for gun purchases? Where a central government agency can look for patterns in gun purchases, have a LEO check up on someone who has suspicious buying patterns coupled with life changes, such as dropping out of a PHD program.
Why can't a system like this be in place for gun purchases? Where a central government agency can look for patterns in gun purchases, have a LEO check up on someone who has suspicious buying patterns coupled with life changes, such as dropping out of a PHD program.
Because politicians can't be trusted. When governments start keeping track of everyone's guns it makes them easy to confiscate later. Ask anyone from the UK or Australia.
Manufacturing jobs, hunting, pest control, all have serious economic benefit.
Fetish? Maybe you need to look up that word, and see what it actually means.
There's the tens of millions of unarmed people who have been murdered by government. Read the book Death by Government. Government is the leading cause of unnatural deaths. If you really want to talk about disarmament, government is where it would provide an actual benefit.
It's not paranoia if it's true.
71 shot, 12 dead at a multimillion movie premiere is a pretty big economic downer.
it's...not true.
good reading. focus should be on limiting magazine capacity.
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-07-20/after-aurora-gun-control-one-more-time
And that article admits it will never work. What do you do about the hundreds of millions of high capacity magazines that people already own? Do you want to go full fascist state and start searching everyone's houses.
What good is restricting mags to 10? A reload can be done in less than a second.
If you allow them to restrict magazines to 10, what's to stop them from further restrictions? How about when anti-Second Amendment politicians want to restrict it to single shot firearms?
The loss of human life in this one incident can objectively be valued in the hundreds of millions, which combined with other incidents in the other 364 days of the year outweighs the economic benefit gained from the manufacture and sale of guns.
it's...not true.
good reading. focus should be on limiting magazine capacity.
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-07-20/after-aurora-gun-control-one-more-time
What makes a rifle, or a pistol, more dangerous is ammunition capacity: the size of the magazine, not the model of the weapon. (Fully automatic machine guns are already illegal.)[
reload can be done in a few seconds by someone after lots of practice, sure.
But not everyone can pull it off.
the writer says that the ideal solution is to limit magazine sizes, but that yes reality which is evident in this thread gets in the way. And reality isn't right or noble in the least, it is crass and stupid, but it is reality.
What about the cost in lives from people not owning guns?
Mexico has tough gun control laws, and half the country is controlled by criminal cartels.
Communist countries had tough gun control laws which allowed them to murder a hundred million people.
Why not take guns away from governments and criminals first?
Japan has some of the strictest gun control laws in the world, yet they have neither the problems of the US, Mexico, or the ex-Communist nations.
Switzerland has high gun ownership, yet doesn't have the problems of the US.
Quick (hopefully non controversial) question. What sort, if any, of licence do you need to own a firearm in the states and is that requirement enforced?
False, it doesn't take long at all to reload a handgun. Most models lock back when you fire the last round, then it's just a matter of pressing the mag release, inserting fresh mag, and pressing the slide release.
Quick (hopefully non controversial) question. What sort, if any, of licence do you need to own a firearm in the states and is that requirement enforced?
Anyone can buy a rifle or shotgun.
You need to obtain a government-issued permit to own a pistol. In New York State it typically takes around 9 months to complete the pistol-permit application process. It also helps to know politicians or law enforcement professionals to push your application through the system. In some other states (like Florida) with relaxed gun laws it might be a quicker process.
In VA, you can walk into a store and leave with a handgun in about 20 minutes. NY is one of the more strict states.