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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Orion Syndicate: [QB] I'm sorry to resurrect a dead thread, but I've been away for a while and haven't had a chance to post. I'm not talking about taking alcohol and guns away completely. I'm talking about control. If you control drink driving, there's less risk of someone being run over by a drunk driver. Same with guns - the outlets where guns are available need to be cut back drastically so they aren't as freely available. I do understand that most of you across the pond fully support your right to own guns and potentially kill others. Although I don't support it, I'm not naive enough to believe that the situation here in the UK can be transferred to the US. You can however make guns less freely available which is what I'm advocating. I'm not sure if this is done already, but background checks into the buyers could be carried out before handing over a weapon. It is a very large country and may not be feasible, but it's an idea. All the recent problems surrounding guns have been from them falling into the wrong hands. Before you say it, if people REALLY want a gun, they will probably be able to get it but I doubt everyone will go to drastic lengths to break the law and obtain a gun just for the sheer heck of it. I'm sure you have some laws there where it makes it difficult for certain people to buy guns - enforce them. If laws are just there for show, they don't do anything. Ever since the 50s and 60s, there has been a lot of anti racism/sexism legislation all over the world. Imagine what the world would be like today if they weren't enforced. You still get racism/sexism today, but not as much as there likely would have been because attitudes have changed. People realise that racial discrimination is wrong and legislation has enforced that. Clinton tried to get tougher gun controls through, but was blocked. This just shows the way attitudes are and how politics comes before saving peoples lives. Education is a way of changing this, but it'll take time - a long time. You need to start with the young and teach them about gun use because although you'll probably never stop them ever owning a gun, they will own one some day. If you teach them the rights and wrongs of gun use at a very early age, it could stick. I don't know if these ideas will work, but then again, no-one ever knows if it's going to work until it's put into practice. Case studies are fine, but how many times have people seen an idea look good or bad on paper, but it's turned out the opposite in reality? People are dying unnecessarily already and something needs to be done to control this. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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