What is the best solution to get rid of firearms/guns?

Answer 1

as they say:

You can take my gun when you pry it from my cold dead hand.

Jennifer (answer below), the civil war would come because many Americans -- well above the majority -- feel that the statement "the right of the people to keep and bear arms SHALL NOT be infringed." is a part of the constitution worth fighting for.

When I was in the service I swore that I would "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic." Taking away my 2nd amendment rights, or any other citizen's, falls under that category of enemy to the Constitution. I still hold that oath dearly.

Answer 2

There is none, plain and simple. We have been fighting a pointless war on drugs for decades and are getting nowhere. Guns would be no different. Any criminal in possession of a firearm is already in breach of the law, so a gun ban would just be another law for them to break. If gun control works, then how do you explain the high crimes rates in California, New York, Washington D.C., Chicago and Hawaii, where handguns are extremely controlled or outright banned. Drugs are illegal, yet people still get them and use them without very much of a hassle, banning guns would have the same consequence. I hate to have to say it again, but when you ban guns, then only criminals will have them.

Answer 3

Making ownership of certain guns illegal would go a long way toward reducing the number of dangerous people with guns. Owning a machine gun is probably illegal. Limiting certain other guns that have no purpose other than killing people would not void constitutional rights. Hunters and target shooters would still have guns appropriate for those activities.

Rolling pins and kitchen knives can kill people, but when used in a rampage, far fewer people will be dead than when assault and automatic guns are used.

Answer 4

Get rid of guns and go back to stabbings with knives and swords or what ever you can make. At least you'll have a better chance of fighting back, unless the criminal uses throwing knives or shurikens. That would be a little harder to defend against.

Answer 5

Mopp inferred that if we got rid of guns there would be a civil war. I understand that a large percent of the population owned guns in Iraq even before we invaded. Gun ownership did not prevent their civil war.

I don't have a solution except to make it harder to get guns in the first place. Automatic weapons should be banned. There may be a few who want them as collectables, but no one needs an automatic weapon for hunting or self defense.

I lost the URL but an information web site listed 47 recent school shootings. 36 were in the United States, 2 in Canada and 9 in the all the rest of the world. Could Canada's strick gun control laws account for their small number? The very lax gun laws in the U.S. might contribute to the high percent, (about 76%) of all school shootings worldwide.

Answer 6

Why would you want to? If the guy that did the shooting at the school didn't have a gun, don't you think he would have used something else? There are more people killed by cars a year than guns, are we going to take away cars ? DUHHHHHH

Answer 7

Guns are not the problem, criminals and crazy people are. I am so tired of hearing liberal crybabies whine that we need to get rid of guns.

Answer 8

get rid of the people. its not the guns its the people using them.

Answer 9

If you take guns from the "law abiding public" will criminals turn them in with a smile? No

Answer 10

do you mean you want to get rid of your own guns then take them to a pawn shop.