But again, the only solution to that would be a massive effort to confiscate/buy back guns kinda like Australia tried, and that's not gonna happen. Even if it did, it would take decades to filter out guns, and most of those guns would be forfeited by law abiding people. The guns are here. The genie is out of the bottle. I suspect that solutions that focus more on prevention and mental illness might be more effective.
I really, really find the "the genie's already out of the bottle" issue to be true. The amount of guns in this country make comparisons to other countries completely apples and oranges. That said, if we start getting serious about ammunition, then that is negated to some degree.
Maybe, but I don't think driving up the price of ammo, through taxation or regulation, would do anything except encourage a huge black market for ammo. Think Prohibition.
OK, using a "black market" boogeyman as an argument is ridiculous. There's a pretty thriving black market for basically every sort of illegal drug, but that doesn't mean that we should leave heroin unchecked.
That's why I used the Prohibition analogy. Booze had been with us since the founding, was perfectly legal, and then was made illegal. Not so for heroin. Sure there's a black market for all sorts of illegal things, but a black market for things like booze or guns - which have been part of country's DNA since before its founding - would
explode. Hell, guns are more firmly enshrined than booze - they have their own amendment. It just wouldn't work.
