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X_Digger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-08-09 08:33 AM
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26. Ahh, the remainder problem..
Even if you cut off the legal source of guns today, most criminals get their guns from illegal channels (40%) or friends and family (40%).

http://ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/fuo.pdf

Now, how long do you think it would take for those guns already owned to be destroyed or turned in? (300m firearms)..

http://lawreview.law.wfu.edu/documents/issue.43.837.pdf

(answer: bout 75-100 years)

And during that time, how do otherwise law-abiding citizens who disarmed themselves defend themselves from criminals who didn't?
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