[klrr]

Feels like a cheap solution, there is countries where guns are very hard to get, and in those countries guns are way less used in crimes compared to USA for example. This will result in even more guns and probably a even bigger problem in the future.

[ef4]

On the contrary, the cheap solution is "assume there's a way to make guns hard to get in America. See, isn't that better?" Yes, maybe it would be better, but you assumed away the hard part.

There are already 300 million guns in America, and a deeply entrenched culture in favor of keeping them. That is the initial condition we have to work with. Saying "just be more like country X" isn't a solution at all.

[klrr]

Totally true, one solution though could be to pay people to turn in guns, this won't work in practice probably though.

[ef4]

Local police departments do gun buybacks all the time in the US. https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&#3...

Sometimes with amusing results: http://www.ammoland.com/2011/03/29/pro-gun-activists-outbid-...

[jfoster]

Other countries have done that. Of course it won't be perfect but it's a good first step.

Keep in mind that you wouldn't need to collect every single gun. You just need to shut off the supply and make the black market ones difficult to find.

[kristopolous]

It's in the class of restricting personal liberty in the name of public safety. I don't think you'll get people to move on their positions very easily.

[abrown28]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzFWRPiNXOI