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To: tejek who wrote (693597)	1/18/2013 10:58:15 AM
From: jlallen	3 Recommendations Respond to of 1575551

This make take 100 years but it has to be done. You will have to amend the Constitution first, dumbfukk. See D.C. v. Heller and McDonald v. Chicago, recent SCOTUS rulings on the right of individuals to bear arms....

To: tejek who wrote (693597)	1/18/2013 12:19:37 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575551

>> Who said it has to be done in one year or two? This make take 100 years but it has to be done. Seriously? Do you honestly believe that within 100 years the home manufacture of weapons won't be both possible but the preferred method of obtaining them? This is just ignorant. There is absolutely no conceivable way -- even 50 years, to prevent people from downloading the plans for any weapon they choose, and running off as many copies as they want. Untraceable, unserialized, untrackable, cheap enough to use once and destroy. If you and your government have wasted 50 years on trying to prevent people from having weapons, that's 50 years during which something meaningful might otherwise have been done.

To: tejek who wrote (693597)	1/18/2013 12:42:43 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575551

Non-leathal weapons (to repel attackers) are being developed which could make use of guns for self protection obsolete. We already have weapons which fire heat or noise and are effective without causing side effects. We are also developing much more destructive weapons, like the Navy's death ray, which will sear through 2,000 feet of steel per second. We have drones from the size of a mosquito to jet size. This is all happening now, what will the world be like in 5 years? ... 100 years from now, will we still be launching lead bullets from a gun at all? There are much better ways to effect change in gun violence than politician wars. I suggest we begin with a serious look at finding ways to improve culture at the grass roots level. Violence isn't initiated by a gun, it is initiated in the heart of a person. When that is a pervasive cultural theme we should know why and we should know how to effect a causal change. We actually do know these things but we are putting our resources and energy into feckless political maneuvering. i2.wp.com