Reply #18: No, I don't think so. [View All]

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I'd say using a child in the production of pornography is far more damaging to a child than the very rare chance of one being shot by a gun.

The reason mere possession of kiddie porn is illegal is because it creates demand for more production, and thus more kids being irreparably harmed.

While you are partially right in that it is at least theoretically possible to make guns as scarce as kiddie porn, it would have many unintended consequences. First, you'd have to rape the Bill of Rights, and repeal the 2nd Amendment. (That would set a precedent that would very likely jeopardize the rest of the Bill of Rights.) Second, you'd have the problem of only law-abiding citizens turning their guns in. Criminals would have a field day picking on unarmed victims for DECADES to come before the police could slowly find and take all those illegal guns off the street. Thirdly, the government would have no healthy fear of its subjects, and we'd likely see a plethora of authoritarian laws come into play, if not the end of democracy altogether.

Are you sure that is a policy you really want to pursue?