A War on Guns would succeed just as well as the War on Drugs succeeded

[panader0]

I don't own a gun (an old school peace and love type), but if I wanted to, I could get one tonight, right in my area.
If I wanted to buy weed, I could get that tonight too.
The war on drugs didn't work. Too many people like herb.
At my local swap meet I can buy a gun easily. No law will stop guns.

[Warren Stupidity]

1. guns and drugs should be regulated for safety.

[soccer1]

3. Agree with that!

[Loudly]

2. I support your choice to consume the drugs of your choice.

But I won't stand for being force fed lead and steel shot at me at high velocity at the whim of another.

[soccer1]

4. The best response to that argument I have ever read.....

[lapfog_1]

5. First off, you are simply wrong

Most drugs that are created by criminals (drug cartels) are organic plant products or can be made from readily available chemicals.

Guns require a great deal of high precision manufacturing.

It's actually hard to get semi-automatic assault rifles in places where they have

a) a law banning ownership of guns beyond shotguns or small handguns

and

b) non-porous borders.

[panader0]

7. Well, I disagree

a) a law banning ownership of guns........" Won't stop people who want them from procuring them easily.
b) non=porous borders don't stop people from coming in.

[lapfog_1]

9. The facts prove otherwise

so good luck with that thought.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate

Compare US to, say, Japan.

[HuckleB]

6. If that's so, why do other countries have so many fewer gun attacks?

Adam Gopnik wrote a fine piece addressing this issue. Regulation is not always bad or futile.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/07/aurora-movie-shooting-one-more-massacre.html#ixzz21BN6WQt4

[bowens43]

8. what we need, what ant civilized nation would have

is a total ban on the manufacturing, sale and ownership of hand guns and ammunition. We should also have very restrictive regulation on all other types of firearms.

comparing guns to drugs is silly.

[panader0]

10. I'm comparing the War on Drugs to the War on Guns

neither will succeed. How's that ban on growing weed going?