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freshwest

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1. That's good news. Problem of enforcing it on the mainland is the geographic difference.
Sat May 25, 2013, 09:55 PM
May 2013

Being an island, or string as Hawaii is, they can pretty much control what goes in and out by sea or air if willing. On the mainland, there are too many points of entry, a larger and more diverse set of opinions.

We're a free travel nation like most, and different states having different laws and the cultures that make those laws, vary a lot. Not only that, even if every state agreed to such, which seem good for the public safety, guns and ammo could still enter into the states that border Canada and Mexico. And then there are miles of coastline for smuggling.

It's going to take a changing of the mindset of Americans to agree to control guns. At this time, the money made has brainwashed generations of citizens on the subject.

This will be a long struggle and we have to fund infrastructure and enforcement in a hostile political environment in many states. I just hope we don't have any more mass murderers, the daily carnage from guns is more than enough.

Good ideas, though.

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