I thought you were referring to Australia's successful gun confiscation program.
But the other problem is that convicted felons, by definition, don't obey laws. If they're going to use a gun to threaten or kill, it's extremely unlikely that they would obey the law against having a firearm in their possession. They'd probably just use one of the 400 million guns already in existence - no need to buy a new one.
The present laws don't seem to be helping, even in the rare cases where the law is actually enforced. I don't understand how another unenforceable law would help.
It wasn't gun confiscation, it was a buyback program, of newly illegal semi auto and auto firearms. We've done buybacks in the US but only on a city-wide scaled and without making those weapons illegal which doesn't work as well. The Australian buyback reduced the number of gun owners in the whole country by about 50% (you could still own manually cocked firearms), reduced gun related suicides by half with no increase in other forms of suicide, and virtually eliminated mass shootings. All because Australians had had enough and said enough is enough. We haven't seen enough kids get killed yet it appears.
We didn't have to repeal the 2nd Amendment to keep convicted felons from legally owning a gun.
I thought you were referring to Australia's successful gun confiscation program.
But the other problem is that convicted felons, by definition, don't obey laws. If they're going to use a gun to threaten or kill, it's extremely unlikely that they would obey the law against having a firearm in their possession. They'd probably just use one of the 400 million guns already in existence - no need to buy a new one.
The present laws don't seem to be helping, even in the rare cases where the law is actually enforced. I don't understand how another unenforceable law would help.
It wasn't gun confiscation, it was a buyback program, of newly illegal semi auto and auto firearms. We've done buybacks in the US but only on a city-wide scaled and without making those weapons illegal which doesn't work as well. The Australian buyback reduced the number of gun owners in the whole country by about 50% (you could still own manually cocked firearms), reduced gun related suicides by half with no increase in other forms of suicide, and virtually eliminated mass shootings. All because Australians had had enough and said enough is enough. We haven't seen enough kids get killed yet it appears.