As an American who's lived happily in Sweden for over four years now - and who plans to renounce his American citizenship once he can get Swedish citizenship - I feel that I have some insight into this issue,
Next, a segment of Americans relentlessly consume media which has convinced them that when Obama was in office, they were literally five minutes away from having jack-booted officers beating their doors down to take their guns. How do we combat that by making their fears reality?
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Then there's politicians who know that enacting actual legislation to restrict firearm ownership would be political suicide. So they instead propose, and pass, laws which have literally zero impact on reducing mass shootings, but inconvenience the hell out of legitimate owners.
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On top of that, let's be conservative and estimate that there are two firearms for every American (the real number I remember is higher), and we implement a blanket ban on ownership. If 99% of firearms get turned in, that's still 6 *million* black-market firearms floating around.
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