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I'm late but...
1. The 2nd Amendment is meant to protect the population from a tyrannical government. Anyone who even considers that banning guns is a valid solution is naive. The 2nd Amendment is the reason the U.S. could never ban guns. Gun owners would fight back against the government, and that threat would be real because those citizens have guns. It's smart that the founders did that.
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Do you believe that the American populace could actually fight back against the US military? Small arms are pretty ineffective against aircraft and armored vehicles, which is the real strength of the military.
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2. America's geography also makes it naive to attempt to ban guns. Britain is often compared to the United States when it pertains to gun crime and gun control, but Britain is an island. It's much harder to illegally transport guns over water than it is over land. With our bordering Mexico and the ease of access that it has to other, unstable South American countries, guns and drugs will always be readily available in the United States as long as the demand exists.
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I think another important point is how large the US is, and how a lot of gun owners live in remote areas of the country. If the government wants all the citizens of Montana, Alaska, Wyoming, or so many other states to give up their guns; what can the government realistically do about it?
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3. Common sense gun control is just common sense. And thats why congress has done nothing about it. Universal background checks is common sense. Private gun sales without going through background checks is just a bad idea.
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Most "common sense" gun control arguments I've seen really are not common sense. A lot of the arguments I've seen are made by people with no understanding of firearms, or even the statistics behind gun crime.
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4. Why ban assault rifles? Why increase security at schools? Why arm teachers? These are all techniques to minimize loss, but not to prevent the attacks from happening in the first place. America's culture has created a youth generation that depersonalizes people, making it easy for someone to feel no remorse or guilt in committin crimes against others. I feel that this is largely due to technology. People feel more like robots. Online harassment is perpetrated by a person, but you don't see the person. They mean nothing to you and you mean nothing to them. That's why it's so easy to say anything online. We also need serious mental health reform. This probably won't solve the problems with the youth shooting up schools, but it will prevent many other violent crimes.
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Totally agree with mental health care reform. If the government isn't going to do anything about firearms; and school security is proving to be ineffective then the obvious solution would be to minimize threats before they develop.