How would you go about disarming the USA?

Question

Just want to see how many people actually thought about this. With the recent shooting in VA, I see alot of posts condoning gun control like in Europ. It can't work here because,people, like me, won't give up their firearms. I like the answers I'm seeing so far.

thanks

Just a bit of Devils Advocate, got ya mad though, huh?

Answer 1

This is not a smart question. It presumes that it is in fact possible to disarm the United States. If laws were passed prohibiting all firearms to all citizens, only the law-abiding would comply - leaving guns in the hands of cops and crooks only. The accidental deaths from misuse of firearms would disappear (a few thousand annually at most) and the self-defense of citizens using firearms against criminals would also disappear (about 2 million incidents per year.) There would also be nothing with which to stop a dictator or invader from instituting a tyrannical police state. The Second Amendment exists for three reasons - to allow the US to have a really small standing army because it can mobilize the armed population in time of war instead, to ensure that the government is not the only armed force so that a police state can not be imposed, and to have the armed citizen be the first line of law enforcement defense against violent crime. An unarmed population is not actually safer, altogether, and it is not the possession of firearms that causes the violence we experience. In Switzerland, every adult male has an assault rifle (i.e., machine gun) at home, all the old men have rifles, and all the officers have handguns, but there is almost no abuse of these weapons. In Japan, where almost no one has firearms, crime and violence are rampant, and the weapon of choice is the blade. Armed violence is not a matter of tools, but of behavior. The answers are not prohibitions, but enforcement of existing laws, improvements in the lives of the people prone to abuse weapons, and better education for everybody in the uses and abuses of weapons. In a truly civilized society, few will act violently and none will abuse weapons. America is not, has never been, and shows few signs of becoming a truly civilized society, so trying to ban guns will not solve the problem.

Answer 2

I would pick small excerpts of facts taken out of context and publish it through the liberal media from many different points. People like hate monger Rose O'Donnell, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and Hillary Clinton would jump on the band wagon for self promotion. Using a tragedy like the recent VA murders I would first erroneously claim that it was the largest mass murder in the history of the US (forgetting about the mass deaths during the political upheavals from the civil war through present day and also forgetting about the almost 3000 people that were murdered during the WTC attacks). I would fail to relate any other sides to gun ownership by responsible citizens, why the Fathers of our Nation, just finishing up an horrendous war with an overbearing and tyrannical government, where so concerned with the people being able to protect themselves against threats both foreign and domestic. I would try and have everybody that they could not take care of themselves or each other and that we needed a huge police force to protect us. I would lie and say that if law abiding citizens could not have firearms that there would be no firearm related deaths. I would lie and say that criminals would not be able to get firearms even though, for the last 15 years of gun restricting legislation this had not shown to be true.

You know, basically I would lie, get popular vote behind me and then take the firearms out of the hands of law abiding citizens! Of course the really bad folks would still have them but I would fail to mention that and I wouldn't care because I'm a fat, rich Democratic Liberal who lives in a really nice neighborhood and has bodyguards (who carry guns)!

Answer 3

I do not agree with disarming the people. The unfortunate fact is people have to lose there lives to maniacs who abuse there rights to protect the majorities right to bear arms. It is what freedom is all about.
One of the unfortunate things that come out of horrible incedents like this is everyone jumping to give up there rights in the name of safety. Same thing happened with 9-11 and the Patriot Act. Lets not overreact and start asking for guns to be banned. Maniacs will always find a way to kill others

Answer 4

Roughly 80 million gun owners in America. An active army of roughly 3 million including guard and reserves.

You do the math.

Don't forget to take into account that probably 80% to 90% of all law enforcement and military personell would refuse and actively fight any such order.

I'll admit it has been a long time since I've been in a math class, but I think I can find the answer to this one.

Answer 5

I wouldn't. It is against the constitution. Beyond that, the idea is abhorrent.

The problem is NOT how to disarm law abiding citizens.

Can anyone that supports gun control explain with reason and logic how to disarm CRIMINALS?

THAT is the question that should be debated here.

Once criminals are disarmed, THEN we can talk about disarming the USA.

You can't just make law abiding citizens that own guns into criminals by trying to make it illegal to own a gun.

That is subversive in my opinion.

Answer 6

If you want to do it quickly, you register all guns, suppress the rights to free speech, freedom of assembly and free press, deprive people of the right to be free from illegal searches and seizures, totally shred the fourth and fifth amendments for that matter, install a dictator and have a militaristic force to go house to house and collect all the firearms, then collect all machining tools and steel and books on guns, machining, metal working, then take all gun smiths, machinists, former military, gun owners and anyone else who might know about how guns go together, and shoot them all and dump them into a mass grave.

Answer 7

Stoke the fears of firearms. Gradually chip away at the interpretation of the 2nd Amendment, enact restrictions on the sale of specific firearms to everyone, regardless of criminal history (or utter lack thereof), gradually broaden the restrictions to include an ever increasing type of firearm.

Answer 8

Could you add details onto your question, and say why I would want to disarm the USA? If I knew any reason why I should do it, then that'd be a part of how I did it I guess, but unfortunately I can't think of any reason why to do so.

Answer 9

It will never happen. This country was founded on Right to Bear Arms and there are too many hunters, etc that will never give up that right. Try to disarm America and you will get another civil war.

Answer 10

Maybe I shouldn't voice an opinion. "They" may be looking for "bad guys" with evil intent in their hearts and who knows...

"Maybe the pessimistic stories we're being told about America's capabilities are just plain wrong!" Taken from "The New American Story" by Bill Bradley, he answers all of my questions and yours. It should be in your library soon. If not, try Borders and Barnes & Noble.