Re:FBI director calls lack of data on police shootings "ridi...
by dalke on Thursday October 08, 2015 @06:46PM
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I am making no claim about the benefits, only the claimed negative consequences.
merpnderp made the claim that making guns illegal would end up with a "massive number of people going to jail for not obeying, country wide stop and frisk, and New Orleans style door to door SWAT raids to confiscate."
Guns are illegal in Australia, though certainly many guns remain. (Hunting and other guns remain.)
Australia did not end up with a "massive number of people going to jail for not obeying", etc.
Therefore, it's possible to make guns be illegal, in the way Australia has, and not end up with the consequences that merpnderp predicts must necessarily be the case.
merpnderp made the claim that making guns illegal would end up with a "massive number of people going to jail for not obeying, country wide stop and frisk, and New Orleans style door to door SWAT raids to confiscate."
Guns are illegal in Australia, though certainly many guns remain. (Hunting and other guns remain.)
Australia did not end up with a "massive number of people going to jail for not obeying", etc.
Therefore, it's possible to make guns be illegal, in the way Australia has, and not end up with the consequences that merpnderp predicts must necessarily be the case.
Therefore merpnderp's claims are not believable.