Thread: Thoughts on Gun Control

Alvis Alendran said I can certainly see both sides of the issue really, but I think that the sad reality at this point is that there just isn't a way of actually being able to enforce any kind of proper level of gun control in the US anymore. Trying to enforce it at this point would largely be throwing money away. They had tried for years to get a full gun registry done in Canada, and all it did was cost a few billion dollars, and waste a lot of time. Something should be done, but I'm afraid I lack the solution to the problem. A gun control law stops the honest folk, but it's not the honest ones we're worried about. People bent on commiting illegal actions tend to commit them with illegal weapons. I'd say that they should pour the monrey into actually trying to police illegally obtained weapons, but that would mean spending money that the government doesn't have to spend anyway. Click to expand... This fits my opinion almost perfectly. I am not an American myself, instead being a citizen of the United Kingdom, but because of the US's extensive gun culture I don't think banning gunsreducing gun ownership on a large scale is not a possibility. It'll likely just be a waste of money and resources as much as I would love such a thing to happen. I do agree with refining the process of owning a gun through, making it more difficult to own one, and making it illegal to own any weapons deemed too dangerous. Explosives and fully automatic firearms for example are not going to be needed for personal defense and I'm sure if you own them for various past times that you can substitute it with something less dangerous. I think the best option at this point would be education, along with trying to curb the current gun culture of the US. I'm certainly not an expert on these things so I'll have to leave it up to others to find a specific solution, but it seems like an adequate solution to almost any problem, not just firearms. Although I know it's been mentioned by San-Silvacian that many countries in Northern Europe have a thriving gun culture and yet they have low gun-related crime rates, thanking education for this. It's worth noting that many of these countries use military conscription for at least a few years once the person leaves schooling. While that is indeed an effective way to teach greater control of firearms I don't think it would ever be anything that would be implemented in the United States. Another method of educating the populace would be necessary. Speaking of conscription, Sweden has recently dropped its conscription policies. I think it might be worth keeping an eye on how their gun crime rates fluctuate over the next decade or so to see if it has any effect. As I mentioned I am British. I'm just glad we don't have such a gun culture here and that gun ownership is not a problem. I've never touched a real gun unless you count a rifle used in laser tag and I don't know of anyone who owns one. The closest I've ever come is at a war museum. In an ideal world there would be no guns at all, but considering the way human beings work it's not something we can sensibly work towards at this point. I'll stop using the words gun culture now. I must've used it a dozen times in this one post.