Firepower

[Occhidiangela]

"Almost none of the weapons used in violent crimes are legally obtained. So what is the good in taking the guns of responsible people and making sure that the only people that have them are criminals?"

Where do criminals get these illegally obtained guns? They steal them from legal gun owners, or buy them from people who have. If the guns were illegal, they wouldn't be there to steal.
The number available for theft will plummet, and therefore reduce the number in the hands of criminals.
That seems to be the way it works in countries outside the US. If the culture isn't awash in firepower, neither will the criminals be.

Plummet? Hope as a method? Not on my watch, thanks. Were your sentiments true, we'd also have less shootings in any case.

Where there is a market, there's a supplier. If everyone locked up their guns better and cut the theft down, there is still that same underground market for guns that parallels that for the underground drug market. The number of guns already "in the underground" is probably in the millions. A change in the provision for law abiders would change next to nothing other than to make more of them new criminals by fiat.

Your dog won't hunt.

I would personally rather risk some gun crimes so that my options are not restricted. It is a cost of doing business I can live with.

Your system works for your country, and that's nice too.

Occhi