Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end?
@966, one of the reasons why the death count by guns is so high is because of gun control. Gun control is nice to a point, but California is the strictest state with gun control laws, and yet its also the state with the highest amount of shootings in America. See a correlation there? And to address your other point, the reason that people can create a civil war with the amount of weapons we have is if we need to overthrow the federal government for some reason. Of course, you could start a civil war over anything else (re: the civil war in the 1860s) but the original intention was that, should we need to, we can remove the government in power and replace it with a new one should it be necessary. I really hope to god that that never happens, given the weapons that humanity has today, but that was the intent. Repealing the second amendment won't change either of those points. People will still attain guns. And don't even tell me you can "take away all the guns" either because you can't -- unless you have some magical device that can somehow locate and transport over a billion guns to somewhere you can store all those guns -- and that's assuming that such a place even exists. Trust me, your idea sounds nice in theory: prevent criminals from getting the guns! Lower the death count! But... well... its kinda impossible in practice. Just consider the logistics of doing the following, then reevaluate where that idea sounds nice:
Get congress to approve a bill to repeal the second amendment.
Get 37 out of the 51 states (or more) to agree on the repeal.
Prevent a civil war just by getting all of those states to agree in the first place (yes, that's bound to happen if you do that).
And that's just the beginning. Again, your idea sounds nice in theory, but there's far too much to consider to actually make it work, some of which isn't practical to even implement, and your idea discounts the fact that should you take away guns people will just find some other way of killing each other. Not to mention you'll be removing peoples ability to defend themselves and their homes using the most effective means available. There are better ways of solving gun crime in America, and banning classes of guns because of their name (and ignoring the facts about said guns), taking away peoples right to carry weapons with them, and/or taking away all the guns are not any of those better ideas.
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