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[MetalSlimeHunt]

So basically you chaps are proposing safety checks (of your secure cabinet etc), mandatory safety training and psychological testing? No bans?

For fucks sake. It's been said over, and over, and over again. Nobody is arguing for blanket bans of all find. There is no country on earth where all guns are banned. There will never be such a place. Please do stop acting as if anyone has suggested it, because nobody has.

I'm curious. Would anyone reading this enact a total blanket ban on firearms, if they were their country's head of state and had significant support from the legislature?

[Scelly9]

Not a chance.

[lordcooper]

So basically you chaps are proposing safety checks (of your secure cabinet etc), mandatory safety training and psychological testing? No bans?

For fucks sake. It's been said over, and over, and over again. Nobody is arguing for blanket bans of all find. There is no country on earth where all guns are banned. There will never be such a place. Please do stop acting as if anyone has suggested it, because nobody has.

I'm curious. Would anyone reading this enact a total blanket ban on firearms, if they were their country's head of state and had significant support from the legislature?

I'd make an exception for police rapid response units, but other than that, yes.

UK before anyone asks, so things like this are a lot simpler.

[Mictlantecuhtli]

Ban everything. Re-institute self-propelled long arms [Bows  ]. Sell all guns to China (Africa?) to finance the building of 250 million English-style longbows.


The trillions of arrows needed would all be fletched by hand. Sorry, it's part of the law. But hey, it'd be an economic boost.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Do we even have industrial arrow-fletching technology? That seems like something we wouldn't have ever invented.

[fqllve]

Pfft you longbow enthusiasts and your callous disregard for safety. What if your child was riding to school on a horse when assaulted by a band of marauding COD players?

Mandatory recurve bows for everyone!

[Urist_McDrowner]

Would safety education have helped in this case, or any case where people use guns, illegal or legal, for murder?
 
Make guns so ridiculously punished for illicit use that your average burglar decides "Probably not a good idea" and doesn't use one. He uses a knife, which works for his purpose just as well but an armed homeowner would have the edge.

Ba'al Bless the United States of Babylonia! All hail President Hammurabi!

Do you think that threat of punishment would have deterred this tragedy? Or any spree killing, where a person does not care about the consequences of their actions whatsoever and fully expects to die?

Of course gun control would not have prevented something like this. If you read my posts, I never once said it would have.

I don't think it would have. It would just bring down the rate of crime committed by sane people.

Imagine this.

Let's think of it like a lottery.

Burglar can buy a ticket for a dollar, which has, let's say, a 99% chance of getting 100 bucks. But there's a 1 percent chance he loses 900. Any sane person would buy that ticket.

Now imagine if you have a 99% chance of getting 100 bucks, or a 1% chance of losing everything.

Wouldn't you chose instead a ticket that has a 50% chance of 100 bucks, or a 50% chance of losing a dollar? That's assuming knife criminals get away more, and they don't.

[Toady One]

Thread locks are more effective than thread warnings, anyway.