[nicobn]

What he's saying is that your cure might be worse than the disease.

Nobody knows what the effects of mass-confiscation would have on American society, but the range of possibility includes civil war and massive unrest. Most people would surrender their firearms peacefully but there's a strong minority that would not do so peacefully.

[mozumder]

Everybody already knows exactly what will happen under mass confiscation: the gun owners will gladly give up their guns.

Anyone that knows gun owners know this is exactly what will happen.

The kind of person that owns a gun are fearful people. They have absolutely no interest in fighting against and armed government when it comes to take away their guns.

I LOL whenever delusional people claim there will be some kind of "civil war" if gun confiscation happens. So much lolz.

Sure there will be some irrational people that might fight back at first, but that number will only be a handful and will be not be statistically different than the number of people that go on shooting rampages right now. Eventually the guns in society will go away.

[yellowapple]

"Anyone that knows gun owners know this is exactly what will happen."

I know dozens of gun owners. I know full well that there would be no "gladly" about it.

"Eventually the guns in society will go away."

Yep, because declaring a law totally causes all the criminals to take a step back and say "hey man this is illegal so we shouldn't do it".

Black markets will always exist. Smuggling will always exist. There will always be some way for someone to obtain a firearm. Hell, in this day and age of 3D printing and DIY projects we're already starting to see folks working toward homemade firearms.

Gun control in this day and age is - at best - a temporary solution. Actually figuring out why people are so motivated to kill other people and addressing those reasons is much more viable as a solution that's actually somewhat permanent.

[nicobn]

You seem very sure of yourself. I'm going to be generous and attribute your confident demeanor to a lack of imagination.

[tristor]

> gun owners will gladly give up their guns

If you believe this, you're clearly delusional. The United States is not Australia.

[Turing_Machine]

Right. For example, so-called "assault rifles" were banned outright in California in 1989. One estimate I've seen is that about 10% of them were turned in, which of course leaves 90% of them still out there. A law that only manages to eke out 10% compliance in California is highly unlikely to be effective anywhere else in the country.