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Even if they were no longer sold, there are already more privately owned guns than people in circulation. And population levels are predicted to plummet, which means the number of guns per capita will go up. And there isn’t really a record of who has the guns. I know a man who ran a gun selling side business who gave all his guns away when he got cancer, before he died. Illegal? Sure. But now those guns are impossible to track down. That isn’t the only case I’m aware of.

The only real solution is to amend the constitution to remove the right to bear arms. I have no doubt that would lead to full scale civil war.




True, so using the word “just” was a huge oversimplification on my side, I am sorry for that.

I agree the US constitution can not be changed without getting the people’s minds changed about the guns being a meaningful freedom defense mechanism.

But it is effectively a religion from what I see (I am not in the US). That makes any potential change very hard.




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