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If you uniformly and simply regulate gun ownership across an entire country so that any of the honest and honorable who want a gun can have one (or more) then you create an environment in which it's far easier to focus on criminals with guns and easier to seperate them from guns.

This is likely impossible in the modern USofA given the requirement for uniform simple regulation across the entire country and the massive historic backlog.

It worked well in Australia; three decades after breaking the world record for deaths at the hand of a crazed lone gunman, in Australia there's been fewer mass shooting than fingers on one hand, and I can go and shoot ULR with my neighbour here in WA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7owwTz7Z0OE

NB: Guns weren't banned in Australalia (no matter what the US NRA claims), regulations were made uniform - two low population states with little to no regulation came in line with existing states, and the territories also.

This made all guns licenced with an annual fee, a central registry, all sales and purchases recorded, no "straw sales", background checks mandatory, etc.