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However, your premise is that it is possible to do something about guns.

However, consider the war on drugs, billions spent, agencies created, military style task force, severe penalties including life in prison just for possession.

So if that didn't keep drugs out of the hands of bad people, why would changing some regulations keep guns out of peoples hands? I don't see any regulations that have ever been proposed that would make any difference and if we went all in as in the war on drugs, but war on guns, the war on drugs sets a precedent that it won't be successful.



I'm not interested in a gun debate (besides, gun regulation works fairly well almost everywhere in the world, but drug regulation doesn't). This topic, however, is about encryption.


> gun regulation works fairly well almost everywhere in the world, but drug regulation doesn't

Problem is most of the countries with gun regulation where it has any form of success are also countries who didn't have guns to begin with.

Trying to impose that on a country with TONS of guns just isn't realistic. You can't even draw parallels between the two because the societies are far too different.


> besides, gun regulation works fairly well almost everywhere in the world

source? doesn't work in venezuela and didn't work in maoist china or hitler's germany


http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/japan

Though, that's the best example I know of.




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