Posted: Apr 20, 2008, 5:50 PM CST
ttom500 wrote:No body can guarantee any Safty meajors to decide oak....those whom bying guns are responsible and all that and as a matter of very fact.........many criminal minded individulas in your country having a lot guns at their home ! Totaly "legal" guns and all those cna be used in horrible ways and has been uses as well.
Specially amount of guns in "Bittered" places in USA is alarming and Barack really hit bulls eye telling so!
I wish for you country this madness a bout guns ends one day and by that I hope there will not be necassary at all for having all those guns.
I almost Swear Police officers will ave much easier with taking care of their jobs as well and they will not have to look like Starwars troops when they chase criminals and knwoing that criminals and even a So called "responsible" gun owner whom has gone nuts are probabely better armed than the officers are!
Dude do you have an idea of the number of legal and illegal weapons that there are in this country?
Follow for a moment. Police in major cities will have 'gun turn ins days'...sometime for money and sometime for free.......they will get anywhere from couple of 100...to several 1000. Most cities have 1 or 2 of these a year. 40 major cities in the country. Do some math.
in good turn in year.....40x 3000x 2=240,000 gun turn ins a real rouch estimate
Go to a normal gun show here. You will usually see 10000 for sale. Legal weapons to be sold. On any weekend...across the country...maybe a 200 gun shows. Do some math.
10000 x 200 = 20,000,000 legal weapons for sale each weekend
again a rough estimate
That is just gun shows, not talking license dealers, private dealers,
walmarts, shooting clubs, hunting stores, mil dealers, online sales, and direct factory sales. Of which there is likely around 100,000 or more outlets to buy weapons legally. If each has a inventory of 200 guns, The math is:
200 x 100000= 20,000,000 legal weapons for sale each day of business again a rough estimate
That is just the weapons in the marketplace...not counting the millions of legally purchased already owned.
If you collected just this one years legal on marketplace weapon at the 240,000 turn in estimate.......it would take 166 years to collect them.
40,000,000 -:- 240,000= 166.6 years
Getting an idea of what you ask in this?
Please don't say to us, things start with one small step.
These kinds of annual legal sales have been going on since the end of WWII. If we lived in a perfect society, we would not need or use them. we don't...we live in a society where there is daily gun related violence.
I for one am not going to say to a small business owner, he cannot protect himself. Not going to say to a woman that leaves work late at night, she cannot carry one. Not going to say to a hunter that feeds his family with one, he cannot have them. Specially since that 2nd says that all are have the right to own them.
If they cannot teach responsible gun use in the big cities......well.....they can try to enact there own laws on it. DC did and it got struck down in a Supreme Court ruling a few months ago. Maybe the answer is teach responsible gun use......a lot easier than trying to collect the millions of weapons that are in the country.
If Barak wants to change the 2nd? He is in a good position in the Senate to do just that. Let him propose a Constitutional change to do it.[/quote]Not likely that such a Constitutional Change would ever get ratified.
Plenty of water to flow down the Potomac until that would happen