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Quote by: BugsBunny07  You will never be able to remove all guns from a society such as America. Even if you allowed police to do a door to door sweep through every home in the Country, criminals would still be able to get guns and use them. This is reality. Iraq is not nearly as big as the U.S., but still, five years after we started looking, with far fewer restrictions than American law enforcement have under the Constitution, and far more resources than American police, there are still illegal weapons out there, and they are still being used to kill the innocent. |
Not really an analogous situation. The guns in Iraq are there because of the geopolitics involved in the situation. No matter what our government says about the success of the surge, the rival parties involved there have a vested interest in being armed to the teeth in preparation for the day we leave. Sooner or later, whether it is because the American public demands it, or some faction there reaches a level of power and control and we can walk away claiming victory, in the end those guns are there because powerful elements on all sides want them there. The Sunnis, the Shites, the Kurds and every other faction with a vested interest and powerful government ministers, are getting ready for the day when they can take power by force. Claiming that that situation is in any way duplicated here is unrealistic.