>> "For me, that seems pretty well regulated."
>
> [WS:] If it is so good, why is it so bad?
I don't see why it's "bad" -- you mean that gun control, in and of itself, is unable to stem the trend of violence and crime in the US?
Knock me over with a feather.
> It is clear that - given the availability of firearms in
> the US and the every high by international standards gun
> related death rates - the existing regulations do not work,
> even if some gun owners find them cumbersome.
So why add more?
It doesn't work. Let's do more of it! :-)
Shocking news: perhaps the relationship between <gun ownership> and <violent crime aided by guns> in the US is ... non-existent? I mean, sure, the US has way more gun crime than other places. But we also have DOZENS OF MILLIONS of gun owners, 99.99% of which will never use their guns in a crime.
For a guy who likes to think he knows a thing or two about science and stastistics, you really come off as a guy who just likes to talk.
> it makes little sense to claim that we have adequate gun
> regulations ...
... which of course I didn't do; you said that SCOTUS "ignores" it, and I just said that this was hogwash. I said nothing of its 'adequacy' ... But: please continue!
> ... when thousands of people are being shot every year.
C'mon, do some math. Thousands of people are shot. By dozens of millions of people.
It turns out that thousands of people in the US are using the Internet to trade child pornography. By MILLIONS Of Internet users. Oh, wait.
> it is one thing to deregulate a morally or even financially
> objectionable activity, such as drug use or gambling, but a
> different thing to deregulate an activity that is certain to
> produce deadly consequences for the public.
Yes, DOZENS OF MILLIONS of people are doing something that is CERTAIN to produce deadly consequences.
Do you even read what you write before you click "send" ...?
> And one more question - why is it that gun regulations are seen as
> onerous only in the US but not in any other developed country?
In most countries, it's not a simple matter to accidentally become a felon.
" ... the T.S.A. says the number of guns found at airport security
checkpoints has been steadily rising for the last couple of years.
Through Friday, 1,105 guns have been found this year, a pace that
is higher than last year's. In 2011, the total was 1,320, up from
1,123 in 2010, the agency says."
My guess is that it has become easier to detect these, and we're not actually seeing a rise in forgetfulness. Because really: none of these people are bringing guns on planes in order to do crimes; they are bringing them through security because they are forgetful, or lazy.
In Switzerland, if you bring a gun to the airport, everyone has a good laugh at you.
/jordan