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Corey307 t1_jeeudgm wrote

Reply to comment by RamaSchneider in Police investigate suspicious death in Brattleboro after report of gunfire by RamaSchneider

So what’s your solution? Round up over 400 million guns from the 99.9%+ of Americans that are law abiding gun owners? Because he wouldn’t even get a small fraction in there and still be a similar number of guns on the streets in the hands of criminals.

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Rogers_Ebert t1_jeewsb6 wrote

While they defund public police, and then pay them for private security in their condo complex's.

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RamaSchneider OP t1_jeewiuq wrote

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I've never suggested anything like you're bringing up. Along the way I've suggested many things including "draining the swamp" type actions where, for example only, firearms confiscated due to illegal use or ownership be as immediately as possible destroyed. And then layer on restrictions to the types of firearms legally available for general use (yeah - gun control).

You, me, the person siting next to either of us ... we're all bozos on this same bus, and most of us have been cogs on the wheel and along for the ride. We didn't create the situation, and we're not financially profiting from it. But we do have the power to do something, and I don't believe what we're doing now is working at all.

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RamaSchneider OP t1_jeex0a8 wrote

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I believe the biggest problem regarding firearms in the United States today is much more about contemporary "gun culture" then it is about the number or even firepower of guns available.

Once this gun culture was about military, hunting and self-defense. Nowadays, unfortunately, this gun culture has become about political labeling and more use in our social and political affairs.

This is the one that really makes some people in public office wilt.

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