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Donald Ian Rankin

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11. I think gun control is something we've gotten about right here in the UK.

Reply to GGJohn (Reply #4)

Fri Oct 9, 2015, 05:21 AM

Oct 2015

Obviously, there's no prospect of anything like that happening in the USA.

But leaving realpolitik to one side, the answer to the questions you ask is "repeal the second amendment; roughly copy Britain's gun laws".

If you want, you could replace the 2nd amendment with something beginning "Armed militias being the worst possible threat to the security of a free state, ..."

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