The problem, rather, is that there are simply too many guns in this country to ever ensure that some portion will not fall into the hands of the criminally inclined or the violently insane.
Israel's acceptance of the 1993 Oslo peace agreement, they argue, was at least partly due to Yitzhak Rabin's realisation that Israel could not for ever ensure that its enemies were denied nuclear weapons.
It simply tightens controls on the documentation of ivory for sale, however no mechanisms could ever ensure that such controls were met and enforced for every single piece of ivory sold in the UK.
"How can we ever ensure that human systems are going to continue to keep something that requires rather sophisticated engineering and monitoring to function forever, that's just crazy," argues Kevin O'Reilly, an activist with Northern Alternatives.
"We've outraised the Romney campaign in that time period but that's not the point -- our supporters are more committed than ever to ensuring that insurance companies can't drop coverage for people who get sick or discriminate against people with preexisting conditions by reelecting the President".
"With the significant weakening of the welfare state in recent years, it is more important than ever to ensure that vulnerable households are offered support before they are pushed into crisis".
"In light of recent events in Orlando and Toronto, we believe it is more important than ever to ensure that queer spaces in Vancouver are open and welcoming to trans, queer, and allied Black, Indigenous folks and people of colour," the group wrote on Facebook.
His ambition, as he declared in the opening sentence of the first work of history ever written, was to ensure that "human achievement may be spared the ravages of time".
"He possesses one quality which will ever ensure success, and that is a bull dog pertinacity and perseverance which renders him ignorant of the fact that he is ever whipped".
These two sites will provide greater opportunities for collaboration than ever before, ensuring that the Bay Area remains a hub of exploration and discovery in the field of structural biology.
