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As I've said elsewhere, and roachboy points out, one of the the real disconnects here is between the Urban and the Rural.
As I have said, the genie is out the bottle. Gun control isn't going to happen anytime soon. No politician in the US is going to risk it. Interestingly, three of the four major parties running in the last Canadian election supported a complete ban on handguns. I think this is a direct refelction of the fact that the majority of the Canadian population is an Urban one.
In the end, the only practical soloutions that I can see for the US are:
1) greater control over who gets to legally carry handguns, nationwide
2) stronger punishments for those who use and guns in crimes
3) stronger fines and/or punishments for those who misuse their weapons
More than this and it would be political suicide at the Federal Level. On the local or state level, you will see some attempts at gun bans (like D.C. and San Francisco) but in the end they will matter very little. Their borders are pourous and the ability to enforce the ban nearly impossible to enforce.
As I said before the only way to truly make a hand gun ban work would be to:
1) make it nationwide
2) halt the manufacture of handgun, except for police and military
3) make the laws strong and with harsh penalties
4) enforce those laws
In the end, this would never jive with America's "we are a free nation" ethos (not to mention the whole constitution isssue). In the end, as I said above, it is easier to keep the death rate at around 10,000 per year than it is do something about it.
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