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In reply to the discussion: Legal: AR-15's. Illegal: Marijuana [View all]Flatulo
(5,005 posts)There are over 200,000,000 guns out there. Even if the government decided to halt all manufacture and import, there will always be those 200,000,000.
If the government decided to go door-to-door to round them all up and melt them down, what percentage do you think they could retrieve? Even if they could get 90% of them, that would still leave 20,000,000 guns. They'd just be much more expensive to obtain, legally or illegally.
I don't know what the answer is to the random madman shooting up a crowd, but it does seem to me that our society is a real pressure-cooker. People are often overwhelmed by the need to succeed or be kicked to the curb. Young people, old people, and everyone in between is under unnatural pressures. Everyone becomes their enemy, and they snap.
Maybe we should start piping THC into the water supply.