# Don't we have an obligation as a society to look at ways to curb gun violence?

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**Created:** [November 23, 2012, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-we-have-an-obligation-as-a-society-to-look-at-ways-to-curb-gun-violence/641871 "2012-11-23T04:16:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-we-have-an-obligation-as-a-society-to-look-at-ways-to-curb-gun-violence/641871/312 "2012-12-20T15:46:28Z")

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I think if the founding fathers were here today they would be appalled that virtually every warning they gave about a central government accumulating too much power has come to pass; almost exactly everything that the authors of the Anti-Federalist papers claimed would result if the new Constitution were ratified and that the Federalists poo-pooed as scare mongering. They would probably insist that the federal armed forces be disbanded and that the right of every citizen to own a full-auto assault rifle be upheld. And given the lessons of history, they’d probably revisit Jefferson’s suggestion that all prohibitory laws expire every nineteen years and a new generation decide whether they want them or not.

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