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For what it's worth, you asked if it wouldn't make sense to keep the criminals from getting guns and wouldn't that be preferable. I agree, it would be, BUT there is no way, ever, to achieve that aim. Guns are forbidden to private owners in quite a few countries, to include Mexico and look what has happened, Nuevo Laredo can't keep a chief of police because the drug gangs keep assassinating the new ones. Gun control/bans do not prevent armed crime, it only prevents armed defense. Tracking a gun only works AFTER the gun has been recovered so that we can get the serial number and the gun is already out of circulation.
The laws we have are perfectly capable of achieving the best form of control anyone can get. Enforcing the laws on the books and increasing penalties for unlawful gun use would go a long way. Instead of fining or pulling the licenses of gun dealers that permit or don't work to prevent straw sales isn't working, start arresting and jailing them. Put people that use guns away for a LOT longer than we have been. Quit accepting excuses for criminal conduct and lock these people up!!!
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