Dutch Uncle
* Tertia Optio * Defend the Constitution
You didn't, but that is the goal of the Democratic Party as it's been since Bill Clinton. Hillary confirmed it in the 2016 election that she favored an "Australian-style" gun ban meaning mandatory confiscation. This won't work, especially with an ultra-conservative SCOTUS in place for the next few decades. I suggest another strategy to achieve the same goal: reduce gun violence and save American lives without stripping Constitutional rights.
Hillary Clinton says a gun buyback program similar to the one Australia implemented in 1996 is “worth considering” in the United States.
“I don’t know enough details to tell you how we would do it or how it would work, but certainly the Australia example is worth looking at,” Clinton said at a New Hampshire town hall on Friday.
{mosads}The Democratic presidential front-runner said data indicate the Australian program reduced the number of firearms in circulation by paying citizens to turn over their weapons.
“The Australian government, as part of trying to clamp down on the availability of automatic weapons, offered a good price for buying hundreds of thousands of guns, and then they basically clamped down going forward in terms of having, you know, more of a background-check approach, more of a permitting approach,” Clinton said.
The Australian government purchased more than 650,000 guns from citizens in the compulsory 1996 buyback program.
Clinton said individual American communities have tried to implement such gun control measures on the local level and that she would be open to testing it nationwide.
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