As soon as someone comes up with a gun control plan that actually works, I am game. But the thing is, in all like 50 years of how many different countries trying to, and none of them have come up with anything that even close to remotely works? One country will ban guns and have a less violent country, but then you will have a country like brazil that bans guns yet has the highest murder rate involving firearms. There is no consistent proof that any plan works or has worked. It has to deal too much with the culture of the country and so many other limitless factors.

The pro gun-control crowd on here is going to jump on here and tell you that you aren't allowed to use Latin-American countries as examples of why gun-control doesn't work. You're supposed to ignore them...and ignore Russia, and then look toward the European countries as examples. Why? Some bullshit about GDP and economic status. It's quite funny, really.

Australia has a similar history to America with their guns and gun culture. Settlers used them for hunting, protection, killing aboriginals, and dueling. Gun violence started getting out of hand and gun control was put in place. More recently very stringent gun control has been put in place after a lunatic committed a senseless massacre on innocent victims. The results they are seeing from their legislation is very positive and is proving very effective.

4. Gun Laws are Racist

Liberal anti-gun politicos might be disquieted to learn that gun legislation dating back to the 19th century placed high taxes and bans on inexpensive guns in southern states specifically to prevent purchases by poor blacks and whites. Later, the Gun Control Act of 1968 was precipitated during 1965-1967, when an unprecedented number of race riots broke out in 125 American cities, including the Los Angeles Watts area, Detroit, and Newark. Violent revolution threats issued by Stokely Carmichael and other Black Panthers fueled public paranoia, as did national media coverage of angry crowd confrontations with police at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago.

Gun control actions targeted on public housing projects established more legislative precedents. Chicago’s “Operation Clean Sweep” (1988) aimed at confiscation of firearms and illegal narcotics allowed police to conduct warrantless searches in predominately black Chicago Housing Authority buildings, and arrest anyone who resisted or interfered

Man, makes you think, doesn't it? I mean, war, yeah? What is it good for?

Fenderbender, gun violence has been dropping because of Roe v Wade. True bill (thanks peaches)

That is true. As distasteful as abortion is to some, it attacks the root of the gun violence problem in the United States far more effectively than gun control could under best case scenarios.

Fenderbender, gun violence has been dropping because of Roe v Wade. True bill (thanks peaches)

Is it sad that I got that?

Australia has a similar history to America with their guns and gun culture. Settlers used them for hunting, protection, killing aboriginals, and dueling. Gun violence started getting out of hand and gun control was put in place. More recently very stringent gun control has been put in place after a lunatic committed a senseless massacre on innocent victims. The results they are seeing from their legislation is very positive and is proving very effective.

Now, over the next couple of months, we’ve got a couple of issues: gun control. (Applause.) I just came from Denver, where the issue of gun violence is something that has haunted families for way too long, and it is possible for us to create common-sense gun safety measures that respect the traditions of gun ownership in this country and hunters and sportsmen, but also make sure that we don’t have another 20 children in a classroom gunned down by a semiautomatic weapon -- by a fully automatic weapon in that case, sadly.