Verisure
Senior Member
You say: (and you reaffirm it in your post #100)Yes, but the steps have to be productive to be useful. We have restrictions that are designed to prevent possession of cocaine & other illegal drugs. How are those restrictions helping?
How would you propose to prevent possession of guns by those with evil intent? You can say, "Take the guns away." Please explain a process that would work.
We have laws against drunk driving. Did those laws prevent the deaths of Princess Dianna? Or Ted Kennedy's teenage mistress?
Laws work - IF people obey them. The problem is, criminals don't obey laws. Law-abiding people do obey laws. So, if guns were illegal, good people would not have them, but bad people would still have them; leaving good people at the mercy of bad people.
Possession of firearms by mentally-ill persons is also illegal. But, that law didn't prevent Adam Lanza's idiotic mother from providing her mentally-ill son, Adam, with several firearms which he used to kill 26 children & teachers at an elementary school.
* Laws cannot be implemented/enforced if a segment of the population doesn’t want to abide by them.
* If you cannot cure the problem 100% improving the situation isn’t worth it
I say:
* Laws can be implemented/enforced even if a segment of the population doesn’t want them.
* Improving the situation is ALWAYS a good thing.