[lit-ideas] Re: Gun control
- From: "Judith Evans" <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 23:10:00 +0100
> Voluntary recall for which gun owners are paid for the banned
weapons
> they turn in.
Yes. And if the circumstances are somewhat different (I'll check
the details
later) amnesties. We've had at least one amnesty.
(Not all private gun ownership is illegal here.)
Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Paul" <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 8:59 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Gun control
> > If private gun ownership is illegalized, how does one go
about
> > collectin the guns from those who already possess them?
> >
> > House to house?
>
> Voluntary recall for which gun owners are paid for the banned
weapons
> they turn in. It worked in Australia. If you're serious, and
not merely
> being flippant, you might see
>
> http://www.aph.gov.au/library/intguide/law/crimlaw.htm
>
> There have been various attempts to show that the Australian
law, passed in
> response to a horrendous killing with an automatic weapon, has
been
> ineffective;
> but the weight of evidence is that it has been. Certainly there
have been no
> mass killings there since 1996, and before that there had been
more than one
> might have heard about here in the US.
>
> Not all 'private gun ownership was illegalized,' and nobody
here seems
> to be suggesting that.
>
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