re: Would cops be less trigger happy if guns were outlawed?

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You know how cocaine is illegal but some people manage to get their hands on it? Drug cartels would just become gun cartels.

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Maybe so, but the problem would be a fraction of what it is now. Depending on foreign manufacturers would drive up gun costs astronomically. Plus you have the added benefit that most guns are generally not addictive.

Don't know if it matters, but most guns that the cartels use are made here in the US.

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Don't know if it matters, but most guns that the cartels use are made here in the US.

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I would think that would make the difference. Someone earlier claimed that the US is the top manufacturer of guns in the world. I'm inclined to think this is true.

Guns aren't like cocaine or other drugs. With cocaine you pretty much just need to farm land to grow the plants and maybe the proper climate. With guns you need the industrial capability. I doubt other countries have the same industrial capability as us to wholly replace what we produce if we drastically cut down.

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Depending on foreign manufacturers would drive up gun costs astronomically. Plus you have the added benefit that most gu

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Drugs made in America are way more expensive than drugs made in Mexico, why would guns be any different. The reason they aren't making them now is because anybody can go to a gun store and buy one so the black market demand isn't very high.

True. For all the people arguing, "this is stupid", I think it only seems stupid because it's your constitutional right, and it's been in place for 200+ years. I think it's way too late to implement this, and it'd get protested to death, literally.

At least in Korea, the only threat of violence is from hand weapons, getting beat up by Korean gangs or exchange currency grandma's gang protection, and fist throwing disputes. I've never walked even in the ghettos there and thought," I NEED to get out of here" like a lot of south side areas in the U.S.

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In this scenario, There's probably more money to be made by more cheap guns than less high end guns. It's just pure economics.

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The economics are undoubtedly more complicated than you're making it sound. It just seems like you are making a blind assertion.

Here is another thought, if gun production ceased to exist in the US what about all the employees laid off?

Its "idiocy" to understand history?

Its not just the situation in Germany to look on either. China,Cambodia are also hold historic reasoning.

Idiocy is the belief that it could never happen here and that history never repeats itself.

Of course there is this and like him I do not own a gun.

“Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.” Ghandi

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Yea they could then just run around like the SS


I love this kind of stupidity.


Jim Bob and Bubba with their tricked out AR-15 knockoffs aren't doing anything to prevent us from running around "like the SS."

The fact we aren't out to eradicate a race of people, oppress people, or generally do Nazi shite keeps us from doing that. The fact we took an oath to protect and serve our country/community stops us from doing that. Most importantly, the fact we aren't evil prevents us from doing that. We've got better guns than you anyway...

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Agreed 100%. Anyone who thinks that civilians need guns to protect ourselves against our own government is nuts, and it's fricking insulting.

People like/want/need guns for hunting, sporting and self defense needs; and I support that. But let's be real; nobody here is in a militia. Our military and police are well armed and trained, if they would have wanted to turn on the American citizens there is nothing that a bunch of regular joes with glock 17's and ar-15s can do about it. I love my guns, but I fully realize the 2nd amendment was written almost 250 years ago in much, much different times.

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Our military and police are well armed and trained,

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There are a few steps that occur before you get to that point. I guess the point just flew over your head. But I'm guessing you cant understand that.

Having an armed population does many things for this country maybe too much for you to comprehend. Disarming the populace is definitely one of the first steps in governance of a tyrant. Becoming a police state is definitely the goal of any tyrant.

We have a Constitution that is becoming more and more meaningless by the day. The separation of powers in this country is slowly eroding. Ban guns today and tomorrow you will most certainly not see the hyperbole made of the SS running around but you certainly cant guarantee that 50 years from now for our children can you?

All for what?? A very very small part of the population wants to kill. Does the end justify the means?