Batcat
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Despite all the efforts to ban civilian owned firearms starting after JFK’s assassination, the movement has had little results to brag about.Tell us, Elmer, how many deaths would be acceptable to you if our government decided to confiscate most guns against the will of Americans? Roughly 40K die per year out of 330 million today. If DC got its wish and could ram through a law to institute total control, including confiscation by force, we could see civil war and the loss of many multiples of that number. Would that be okay if it was the only way to "save lives"?
In fact gun rights have made significant advancements. For example in many states today you do not even need a license to carry a handgun.
Today we have far less trust of our federal government than we did in the 1960s. I see very little chance of seeing draconian gun laws such as the confiscation of most civilian owned firearms passed in our nation in the immediate future. Any attempt to do so would likely lead number of sates leaving the Union.