If the Second Amendment was repealed, would you give up your guns? (weapon, death)

[TKramar]

They can't take from me what I don't have to take in the first place. I have no guns, have never had a gun, and do not WANT to have a gun. I don't see a value in them.

[Driller1]

Never would we give up our guns.

We can make ammo if we had to.

[BlackShoe]

Try and disarm us and confiscate all firearms and there will be civil war in America. Period. And I will be one of the first ones to start shooting.

[thecoalman]

Originally Posted by drunk on kool aid

I'm envisioning a reasonable disarming process where owners would be compensated for their firearms and ammo with tax credits at fair market value.

There is something like 300 million legally owned guns in private hands, that's probably a conservative estimate. Let's say each gun on average is worth $300 which is another conservative estimate. To buy them back would cost 90 billion using those figures and I'm pretty sure that isn't anywhere near the real value, plus are you going to compensate for all the other things purchased for guns? It's not just ammo, there's gun safes, targets, various cleaning tools etc.

Hunting and fishing is a 80 billion a year industry as well according to this article.

The Happy Hunting Ground - ESPN

Hunting license sales in the first six months of 2009 were up 7.6 percent over the same span in 2008; most recent data shows 1.6 million jobs in the U.S. depend on hunters and anglers, with most of those being in rural areas; combined, hunters and anglers will spend $80 billion on hunting and fishing in 2010 — nearly a third of the value of the nation's total economic stimulus package — up from the previous all-time high of $76 billion.

[txgolfer130]

For sure would be quite a struggle for any U.S. or UN troops to "confiscate" my guns, especially on my 50 acre ranch that has a clear view for 150 yds in a 360* circle except for a few markers, er, trees.

[Pretzelogik]

this question need not even be asked

[drunk on kool aid]

Originally Posted by roysoldboy

How long do you think it might be before 3/4 of the state legislatures manage to vote the way you want them to? That will have to happen, you know, to get the necessary amendment. I hope you know what the amending process for our Constitution is.

I do--our Constitution is very difficult to amend. I have no illusions of this being within the realm of possibility anytime during my lifetime. This presumes a future where the vast majority of citizens and legislators would elect to repeal.

The Second Amendment is often held as a bulwark against arguments for gun control, so I was wondering if taking away the Second Amendment would collapse that resistance. I'm getting the impression that it wouldn't make much difference.

I didn't realize that boating accidents are a common way to lose guns.

[jetair]

Originally Posted by drunk on kool aid

If, in a moment of clarity or insanity (your choice), the Second Amendment was repealed and personal guns were outlawed, would you accede the loss of the Constitutional right and give up your arms?

I'm envisioning a reasonable disarming process where owners would be compensated for their firearms and ammo with tax credits at fair market value.

Exceptions would be made for antiques, heirlooms and historically important pieces, provided that they are rendered inoperable and made obvious with maybe a non-removable fluorescent orange plug in the barrel.

Maybe firearms could still be available from an armory for short term rental to hunters or to target shooters on the premises of a range.

So, your response would be:

"OK, here are my guns and ammo; now, where's my tax credit?" or "pry from my cold, dead hands?" Or something else?

Something else, lots of them, well aimed.

[Redraven]

The minute the Amendment is proposed, there would be demands made to many State Legislatures that they MUST pass resolutions to:
1. Reject the amendment
2. Start proceedings to secede from the United States and form an independent country.

Number one would pass almost unanimously in many states.
Number two would be argued over more, but would likely pass, in many states, if the amendment looked like it would be approved.

Fire and theft are also good ways to lose guns. (you don't expect them CRIMINALS to actually BUY their weapons, do you?)
Yes, theft requires a police report in some areas. No problem.

[thecoalman]

And with 300 million guns in private hands that are legally owned now the incentive to report them as stolen only goes up, the black market would be huge and you'd have absolutely no regualtion of those firearms at all.