Connecticut Shootings

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Well, it's just one of those things. The American government simply doesn't have the manpower to go around every home in America to audit for firearms. And that's probably why the gun laws won't change significantly. It's simply too late.

In England, I could get a gun. It wouldn't be easy, or cheap. I would have to go to a certain person I know, and I'd have two options. £400-600 for a used pistol, or £1000+ for a new one. The main difference being if I get caught with the used one, I'd go down for all the shootings it had ever been used in. The new one obviously wouldn't carry that penalty with it, which is the main reason why it's so expensive.

We're talking the kind of gun you'd get for $200 new in a shop in America. A cheap piece of crap, and you'd get a handful of bullets with it. You wouldn't be going on any mass shootings with it, and it'd been very hard for you to get it, and would have cost you a bomb. £1000+ is a lot of money, especially in USD.

I think that's maybe $1,500-1,800 in USD? With that money in America you could buy a much bigger, more powerful gun, much easier. And if you couldn't, your neighbour, your dad, brother, your uncle has got one. There's just no comparison.

You're both right that something has to be done. It's just too late to criminalize gun owners in America. That should have been done a hundred years ago. So what if it's part of your constitution? We all have laws and long-standing legislation in our countries that are changes over years to keep up with the needs of the times. To say "It's our right to bare arms because of the constitution" simply isn't good enough.

That's all been and gone, now. It's 2012, and many homes in America have firearms. What can actually be done that would be effective? It's all well and good to make gun ownership illegal outright, but would that be effective at this point? How many rednecks would just go "yeah, yeah.." fill out the requisite forms and just keep their guns anyway? I'd say many/most.

It's a troubling situation. America is the Mass-Shooting Capitol of the World, and at this point I don't see what she can do about that.

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