Rizlared
Well-Known Member
Yeah, I was asked a question I hadn't considered before and, thinking aloud I came up with the above.Certainly, and thank you for asking politely.
Here's an excerpt from one of your posts, I added the bold.
I will attempt to answer but first, why do people feel the need to own or want guns? I don't understand this, genuinely
I think, unfortunately, it's probably inevitable that those who's job it is to remove guns from society would have to be armed equally as those they are taking them from.
Guns should never have been allowed, made legal, that simple.
As that genie is out of the bag I guess the best way forward is to a) make ownership illegal AFTER a certain date, all firearms to be handed in.
B) compensate ALL those who comply before that date
C) criminalise those who don't comply and then enforce
I see the dilemma
So, guns have been made illegal. An amnesty has passed where people can hand them in and be compensated.
So let's not send armed police to disarm.
If it is known that someone had firearms, can you think of a way that those individuals could be disadvantaged to such a degree that they would rather give up their guns?
Cut off gas, electricity. Remove employment rights ?!?! Again, just riffing, but surely conditions could be created to make people prefer to comply ?
Is it inconceivable that a non confrontational solution could be found?
Obviously if someone is using one then force would be required, but that is about disarming a violent criminal