Doom, am I correct in believing that your rationale for gun ownership is something to the effect of:
Though a gunless world is preferred, it is highly unlikely, if not impossible. That being the case, it is logical that in a world where guns exist that those who would be most likely to procure them would be individuals or groups with ill-intentions. As such, it is necessary for others to arm themselves in response to that threat?
This is everyone's rationale for non-sporting gun ownership, there isn't another rationale to be had. It's astonishing that people don't see the obvious logic flaw.
What is the logic flaw?
When will gun people stop being afraid of a n-word coming into their window at night and realize a bigger threat to safety are the people who fit the profile of legal gun owners.
Actually in 2008 67% of murderers had a prior felony conviction.
Hope this isn't a strawman.
Now tell me what percent of those murders were random murders perpetrated on the unsuspecting victim that fits the profile of the average NRA member? The people shouting the loudest have the least to worry about and would be the last ones to have their guns taken if a ban on non-sporting weapons were enacted.
stats are fun, let's keep playing with them
You keep talking about "taking" guns. How on earth is the government going to do that? Ask? Search people's homes? Check the records and arrest people if they don't give it up? I mean get real. That is never ever going to happen. Ever. So why even talk about it? It's not going to happen. Never.*
The only relevant discussion would be how to make it harder to buy guns in the future.
*There is a very small chance I'm wrong.
I'd start by asking the UK and Australia how they did it.
I'd assume it would work the same way a war on drugs would. There's lots and lots of drugs in the country. If I decided to smoke crack in a community center in Sedgwick County I would go to prison, but I can legally carry a gun into the same community center, its weird.
Instead of a war on drugs we should have a war on guns. The effect would be the same. The jails would be filled with black people and the privileged class can feel free to have their guns without little threat of retribution. And at the same time regular people wouldn't feel so free to sling their guns around like their life is an episode of GTA.
As stupid as a war on drugs is if we treated drugs like we did guns, we wouldn't be able to do anything anywhere without dealing with some shermed out loser.