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The guns are NOT the problem. I can bring up cases of other nations gun laws
and their results to support BOTH sides of this argument. I cannot believe
that the removal of guns from our society will solve the problem of violence
in our culture. It may postpone the problem, but it will not eliminate it. 

The problem is the continued separation of the classes and particularly the
elimination of the middle class. When the middle class is strong in a nation
or society, the lower classes see a way out of their morass. This element of
HOPE is what discourages people from risking their futures by committing
crimes.

The rise of the middle class is what brought the Arab culture to
prominence in 400 AD, when it was said that you could draw a check in
Baghdad and cash it in Morrocco (I quote from ibn Al-Athir). This is what
brought Europe out of the middle ages in the 1400's and brought Japan to the
position of a world power in the 1960's. Our ancestors created this nation
(USA) in order to break the rigid class structure imposed on them by King
James of England, and look at what it did for us!

When the population (esp the lower classes) feel they cannot change their
position in society nor that of their children, they turn to crime. This
threatens mercantilism, and the ability of money to flow freely throughout
the society.

Instead of concentrating on guns, let's take a look at the increase in
low-paying service jobs and the impossibility of a raising the social level
of a family through minimum-wage jobs. This coupled with the diminution of
low-skilled jobs (like family-run agriculture which is virtually
non-existant in the USA) has created a situation in which slavery is
beginning to look like job security.