Sounds great on paper. Now how do you implement this in this country and forcibly take guns away from current owners...
I've been (thankfully) living away from the US all this year in a country with virtually no guns. Want to talk about freedom? the ability of being able to walk virtually anywhere in a huge city, even stumbling home at 2AM without having to worry about getting fucking shot or mugged. or being in the middle of a huge crowd without worrying about getting gunned down or blown up. oh and lets throw the ability to go to the hospital or get medical care without having to spend the equivalent of downpayment on a vehicle. The US is F'd right now.
I agree with you 100% The US is fucked right now. I'm not used to having to think that, but I have to say it to myself several times a week these days what with everything that's been going on especially the last year.
"Now how do you implement this in this country and forcibly take guns away from current owners..."
That's the reaction you get, of course. The thing is this:
You make guns illegal to own. People either turn them over or hide them. There will be a black market in guns. Of course, a black market can be infiltrated by law enforcement and people engaging in it can be prosecuted, and certainly should be. If a gun is in hiding, well, it's effectively neutralized unless used in some fashion, so the law (and we, the people) win in that situation. If the gun is used and that becomes known to authorities, prosecutions can and should ensue. That will be the status quo after guns are made illegal to own. The net result will be a gradual diminishing of gun retention in the USA. Yes, 75 years later there will be some guns tucked away, but the goal here is not to make sure that no guns exist (this isn't smallpox), it's to reduce gun violence. It accomplishes that. The 2nd Ammendment does the opposite. It helps ensure that violence such as we've been seeing continues indefinitely. Your choice. What kind of worl/country do you want to live in?