Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3218619-20121215004047/@comment-4604696-20121219172545

I'm going to start if by saying I am for gun control and that the second ammendment should be repealed. However, on the logstic side, we can take from historical examples and current ones that even if we had tighter gun control the trade for them or violence by them would go up. The eighteenth ammendment, section one of the USA's constitution says: After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.

Seeing that this ammendment created people like Al Capone. Similarly, the prohibition of marijuana has been counter-effective. According to this scource, nearly half of all Americans, in 2004, that are 12 or older have tried marijuana. Seeing those cases for both alcohol and marijuana, there is no assurance that gun control would be in any way effective. The USA has over 300k residents, an empire of that size has no way of controlling the actions of its population. The thinking of Conservative Americans is also completely warped. You must have a gun to defend yourself, against blacks, muslims, mexican et cetera. State-level control might be effective, the larger the population, however, the less likely.