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Originally Posted by Oberon
Yeah, at least it's in one thread. Still, I can't see anything happening to take away US guns, it's just too engrained in the US culture to ever succeed. Not unless you have some sort of mass civilian uprising which kills thousands, or something like that. The odd school shooting, whilst tragic, is not enough to cause that kind of change, but you're right, that's not going to stop the age old battle.
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Well, as for taking away guns, they are trying awfully damn hard. Take a look at what is heading to the governors desk in california.
http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/fa...201320140SB374
It's the death by a thousand cuts metaphor really. Much of the time, California is the petri dish for gun control. Now combine that with Obama's executive order banning the reimportation of "military style arms". Basically, M1 Garands, M1 carbines, 1903 springfields, etc. No crime that I'm aware of has ever been commited with these rifles. They are mainly collectors pieces, pieces of history, certainly not "assault weapons" but, they're after those too. They take what they can get, and constantly chip away at it.
How much firearms are part of American culture really depends a lot on where you go. The easiest example is California. You combine a democratic super majority, with large metro's and you end up with a population that has the preconception that only crazy people, and criminals own guns; "normal" people don't.
Contrast that to most any "fly over state", and guns are quite normal. Living in california, If i went over to a inlaw's house and said, "Hey man, I got a new rifle! ", they'd probably look at me funny, like i was crazy or something. Living where I do now, I did tell an inlaw exactly that, and the response I got was, "Well, where is it?! You mean you didn't bring it with you?" After that jovial tongue lashing, I ended up driving home (all but 5 mins), and retrieving said rifle so my inlaw could see it.
