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In reply to the discussion: Congratulations Mike Bloomberg one day at a time closer to a Gun-Free America [View all]pipi_k
(21,020 posts)who did, or didn't, want prohibition wasn't my point.
Of course we can't not try.
But there are too many people who think that this one idea...making guns illegal...will solve the problem.
It won't.
I don't care if 95% of the country want guns to be outlawed.
There will still be 5% who don't.
So let's say 95% of the population don't like guns. The population of the US in 2012 was nearly 313 million.
Let's say 200 million are old enough to buy a gun.
The 5% of 200 million who do want guns makes, what... 10 million?
The only way we'll outlaw guns in the US will be if 100% of the population wants them made illegal.
So it's not the numbers of people who don't want something...it's the number of people who do, and will do anything to get hold of what they want...by whatever means they can.
And if a community like DU can't even agree on this issue, how can anyone expect a country of over 300 million to agree?
Make something illegal, and you open up a whole other can of worms...like illegal gun traffickers.
I could be wrong, but I don't think anyone here would like to see gun cartels similar to the drug cartels in Mexico. Gangs with no conscience. Killing police...men...women...children.
Anyone who gets in their way. And the drugs keep coming over the border.
I don't think that's fatalistic. I think it's realistic.