How in the nine hells would banning guns in any manner no matter how extreme stop me from picking up an illegal, perhaps even homemade if the bans truly worked to any degree, in a seedy, crime ridden neighborhood, and lighting up all this shitheads I can’t stand at the office, after a terrible week at work?
If you’re ignorant and braindead enough to try and actually answer that question, let me introduce you to a concept you may have never heard of. It’s called “crime”. “Crime” is an act which specifically violates law, the more laws you have, the easier it is to break one, intentionally or not. Those who set out to do crime on purpose, not only have no regard for the reasons laws were set in place, they set out to actually violate them!
Banning guns will not stop criminals from having them. In fact it will just instantaneously turn many millions of innocent, otherwise law-abiding citizens into criminals, allowing for the arrest of even more people who’ve done nothing wrong on any arguable moral level. Our prisons are already full of these “criminals”.
I’m not saying we need guns or anything, but before you suggest we only make problems far, far worse, why don’t we look for real solutions to the problem?
In fact, i think the easiest possible way to start making an impact on the violence problem, is to make a slight effort to not be an asshole to your fellow man. Smile a little more often, say please and thank you, and tip the goddamned waitress even if she did a shitty job, it’s quite likely she’d been dealing with assholes all day, and is really entertaining the notion of bringing daddy’s shotgun in with her on her next AM shift.