You can 3D print a working gun. What is needed is a .22short with 1/2 the powder so it bounces off the head rather than penetrate through bone.
A Ram-Set "ll do that ... aisle 21 at Home Depot ... on your right.
You can 3D print a working gun. What is needed is a .22short with 1/2 the powder so it bounces off the head rather than penetrate through bone.
Partial to hanging, myself.
I take it your logic is "if we can't prevent 100% of guns from being made or imported, we shouldn't prevent any guns from being made and imported?"
I like that. It's the same logic as "we can't prevent or punish all murders, so murder shouldn't be illegal."
So, we're back to the "only career criminals commit murder" fantasy.NO.
I'm talking about the situation in countries that already have tough gun control, where the state is talking about further attacks on legal gun ownership to supposedly have some effect on murder rates.
That is ridiculous.
It takes a small number of firearms to arm the criminal element and the criminal element can not be cut off from firearms, full stop.
So, once you have a system of licensing, after background checks and training, the (by definition) non-criminal users of guns should be left alone.
So, we're back to the "only career criminals commit murder" fantasy.
Yay.
What's the rate for non-gun owning, non-criminals?
We should look to the root causes of the violence , to use the words of our illustrious PM . Do you think violent people , will stop being violent without guns ?What do you do when you have tough gun laws and lots of violence?
There has to be an answer.
What do you do when you have tough gun laws and lots of violence?
There has to be an answer.
No.
But "career" criminals are much more apt to commit murder, in fact in Canada the 2.1 million licensed gun owners have a murder rate only1/3 that of the population at large. Imagine how many times larger the murder rate is among gang members.
Was Justin Bourque a career criminal, inelgible to own a gun?
No, he was an anomaly.......same as the guy that shot up the mosque.
If you base your laws on a desire to eliminate the possibility of malfeasance by the very rare exception, you wind up with no freedom.
in canada, knives are used more than firearms to murder. I don't see any initiative to restrict kitchen knives, nor should there be.
You are quite right. But banning useful household items because they might occasionally be misused is a non-sequitur. Guns were created to kill and that is what they do.
we better ban warfarin, it was designed to kill, and has the potential to be occasionally misused.
mace is illegal in canada but bear spray is not. clearly my hunting rifle was only designed to kill food.
Some rifles are designed for target shooting . Have you seen what they use in the olympics ?You are quite right. But banning useful household items because they might occasionally be misused is a non-sequitur. Guns were created to kill and that is what they do.