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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
This is what we need to be discussing. The answer is: gangs, drugs, guns. You can ban guns all you want, but gangs aren't exactly law-abiding citizens. (Consider that hardcore drugs are banned, too.) You might wonder where these thugs get guns if not in Chicago. Well, the drugs come from much further. Gun control cannot be that effective if it is a city-wide initiative alone. It needs to be conducted from the federal level. Toronto's own spike in gun-related deaths has led mayor David Miller to call out for a ban on all hand guns. This won't have much of an effect unless the prime minister takes initiative and makes it so across Canada.
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It seems that we do indeed will not learn from history. total bans have been attempted for things in the past and they simply do not work. Never have, never will.
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This brings up another issue; namely, the problem with what is likely to be the source of most of the illegal guns in Canada: the U.S. Ultimately, for Canadians, this is not just a municipal policing issue... it goes as far as being an international issue. But as far as Chicago is concerned, if it wants to avoid such a title as being the murder capital (as it has in the recent past), it will need to pressure the rest of the country into developing a gun-control strategy that will act as a dose of sanity.
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so what you're really advocating is a worldwide ban on firearms except for those in the hands of law enforcement and the military, right? Again, it seems we don't learn from history.
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