Justice Scalia dead

[Martinjmpr]

This is diverging from the thread topic, but:

Mark my words: You will NEVER see any kind of confiscation scheme, ever. They know it, we know it. A bunch of bubba's want to act tough with "from my cold dead hands" and "Molon Labe" but in reality, peoples imagination in that direction is no more productive and realistic than bronies thinking about prancing around with rainbow dash. (If I got that correct). Flat out, never going to happen. People rising from the dead and eating brains, defying all laws of physics and organic science is more likely to happen first.

I have to agree. What people don't realize about England and Australia is that by the time their firearms confiscation laws went into effect, the % of people who owned guns was already miniscule. If you can get the legal gun owners to down below about 5 - 10 % (and I think 10% would be difficult) then you can pass whatever laws you want restricting guns but as long as anywhere between 35 - 50% of Americans own guns ore belong to families of gun owners (while not necessarily being gun owners themselves) there's no confiscation scheme that has a chance in hell of being implemented.

It's more likely that liberals who want to eventually ban guns will simply try and put more and more roadblocks in front of gun ownership because over time this will cause gun ownership to diminish incrementally: Background checks requirements, restrictions on who you can transfer to and what you can transfer, etc. But it will take decades if not a couple of centuries to diminish gun ownership to the point where confiscation is an option.

[Bmac]

I have to agree. What people don't realize about England and Australia is that by the time their firearms confiscation laws went into effect, the % of people who owned guns was already miniscule. If you can get the legal gun owners to down below about 5 - 10 % (and I think 10% would be difficult) then you can pass whatever laws you want restricting guns but as long as anywhere between 35 - 50% of Americans own guns ore belong to families of gun owners (while not necessarily being gun owners themselves) there's no confiscation scheme that has a chance in hell of being implemented.

It's more likely that liberals who want to eventually ban guns will simply try and put more and more roadblocks in front of gun ownership because over time this will cause gun ownership to diminish incrementally: Background checks requirements, restrictions on who you can transfer to and what you can transfer, etc. But it will take decades if not a couple of centuries to diminish gun ownership to the point where confiscation is an option.

I lean towards this train of thought, also. More quiet gun ownwers than loud liberals, and it's a huge money maker.

But it did indeed get much more real.