Jay wrote:
Do you have an alternative? Your own country heavily restricted firearms but you said it yourself, people just turned to other weapons for protection. Did it make the situation any better or did it increase the prevalence of dog fighting rings? We're humans. We're aggressive, we fight, we're jealous of each other, we're covetous of each others things. You can't breed out competition and aggression, merely suppress it or channel it, and that isn't always going to work. There will be people who ignore the system and go nuts. It's inevitable. And frankly, the more you try to turn society into a bunch of pussies the worse they will be able to handle it when someone does go nuts (like Wesley Snipes in Demolition Man).
As for forcing people to lock up their weapons in a central location. Good luck with that. You're thinking of your own urban environment and ignoring the fact that most of my country is rural. They use their weapons for hunting, or going out in the backyard and shooting cans. Shooting happens to be a fun hobby. It's equivalent to throwing darts in a pub, just with a louder bang. Those are the people that are buying ammunition by the crate, not psychos looking to go off on society. So no, M.O.A.B., your 'solutions' won't be implemented here. They would impact far too many innocent people and tip our society over further into the realm of the police state where everyones actions have to be justified in triplicate before they are able to do anything. Sorry. Not the world any of us want to live in.
You haven't made a single suggestion yet, not even the easy ones.
Come on, you can think of something surely?