Six gun regulation ideas

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57. At what cost?

To accomplish what you suggest would lead to far more violence than we have today.

Several decades ago our nation launched a War on Drugs which seemed like a good idea at that time.

Today drugs are everywhere and easily available. Drug gangs fight over turf in our urban areas and use extremely lethal firearms purchased with the profit from dealing drugs. Innocent people and children die in the crossfire and during drive by shootings. Our violent crime rate would be far lower if we hadn't tried to prohibit drugs.

Of course you may counter and say that banning and confiscating firearms would also solve this problem. Unfortunately gangs capable of smuggling tons of drugs into our nation would have little problem smuggling firearms in for their own use and for sale.

It is quite possible that attempting to ban and confiscate firearms would cause this nation to split into several different nations. Oe on the north east coast, one on the West coast, the largest one in the center and south and a small one composed of Illinois in the north. In many states today there is a movement to secede from the Union.

36 States Want to Secede from the Federal Government: What’s the Economic Impact?
By Henry Blodget | Daily Ticker – Wed, Nov 14, 2012 12:35 PM EST

In the wake of the presidential election, a wave of petitions have been submitted to the White House in which citizens of various states are announcing their desire to "secede" from the United States.
These citizens are so fed up with the country, in other words, they want to opt out and start their own.
http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/36-states-want-secede-federal-government-economic-impact-173510792.html

Now at course at this time no states are actually going to take this course. However an attempt to ban and confiscate firearms would definitely fan the flames of this movement.