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To: Road Walker who wrote (353387)	10/3/2007 11:25:51 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575624

the guns and bullets will just come from over seas like coke and heroin do.

To: Road Walker who wrote (353387)	10/3/2007 11:30:08 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575624

There are hundreds of millions of guns in the US, hundreds of millions more outside the US. Some of them are old and still very functional. Outlaw manufacture and you have more incentive to keep the current ones functional, or to repair old ones. Also relatively primitive guns can be built without advanced or large scale manufacturing technology. As for bullets, many people reload themselves. Make bullets harder to get and that will only increase. Of course you can confiscate guns, bullets, reloading equipment etc., but I don't see any reason to think that will be more effective than trying to shut out drugs. In fact it may be less successful. Drug users need to get new drugs, heavy and/or addicted users need them on a regular basis. Guns and bullets can last a long time. You don't need a new "fix" every day or every week, or every decade for that matter. But then at the end you say we agree, so I guess you where just playing devils advocate. Nothing wrong with that