Thread: Thoughts on Gun Control

big bwack scawy rifwes bwaaaaaa IMO, gun control is just the government's way of skipping out on funding things like education programs, attempting to slap a bandaid on a massive chest wound by blaming the average guy with the one-thousand dollar SGL-31 A semi-automatic AK-74 for the gun crime instead of the petty criminal using a shit 9x19mm handgun and thinking that's the right way to do it. Gun control, for the most part, punishes the law-abiding citizen and supports the criminal. I can, for only 700-800 dollars acquire the tools and parts to produce a single reliable, fully-automatic 9mm sub-machine gun. Each sub-machine gun I produce after that, if I sell them on the black market, goes to around 300-400 per gun. Now you might comment on the usage of the 9x19mm Parabellum and its known armor issues. All I have to do is purchase over-pressure ammunition for the gun and I now have the ability to kill armored SWAT officers without the need of rifle rounds. I can also produce my own ammunition and make armor-piercing, overpressure rounds based off what the Russians make and then I can now kill military members in the new OITVs which are rated against 7.62x51mm NATO rounds. I can go the route of many rebel groups like the Chechens and produce carbines and rifles chambered in 7.62x39mm or 5.45x39mm without much modification to the 9mm SMG itself, then making it a little under par with the M4A1 carbine. The cost of a full-automatic M16-alike? Around 15k before the panic. They are most likely in the 20k area now. You won't find a fully-automatic firearm for under 10k from a retail establishment mind you. And before the cost of the rifle itself, you have to factor in the cost of getting the proper license to own said firearm which can be over a grand itself. You also have to pay a flat tax of 200 dollars when ordering the rifle and it can take up to a year of background checks Which have been done since the 1980s and general slowness of the government before you even get approved to own said automatic rifle. These new 'regulations' are something that has been going on for the past 20 years. Its like making murder illegal again. Its when you ban the use of 30-round magazines, collapsible and folding stocks, and anything that resembles a military firearm is when you are over reacting. --- Also, whats this save the children shit? You want to save our children? Tell your congressman to allocate money towards community clean up projects, more education funding, healthcare reform, creating more jobs and infrastructure repairing as those are the main reasons gun crime is so bad in the United States. Nations like Switzerland, which have, 45.7 guns per 100 residents, have almost no gun-related crime because the population has good education, good infrastructure, plenty of jobs and also educates their citizens on firearm safety and proper usage. Hell countries like Sweden, Norway and France have around 30 guns per 100 people and how many mass shootings and gun crime do you see from them? Its everything not related to firearm ownership that effects gun crime. If you want to save the children, ban cars, buses video games, fun, tea time, beds, and anything that might hurt them.