At not one point have I advocated the banning of firearms, ok? Heck, you can even get rid of gun free zones. The thing is, you say that there are 20,000 gun control laws on the books in the country, and yet if you do not have a criminal record, are aged 18 or above, you can go into a firearm store and apply for a firearm. In some states you have to watch a video and answer a test. Obviously it varies from state to state, like nearly all laws in the US, and if you go to a gun show or a private seller then you don't have to pass a background check.
Now how difficult would it be to make it universal that to buy a weapon from any place you have to have a firearms license, like a driving license, and to gain that firearms license you have to show to a registered official that you are capable of owning and operating a firearm safely. Once you have that license then you get your firearm and if you happen to violate the terms of that license then you get it taken away. Whether you get your firearm taken away as well can be debated but without a license you wouldn't be permitted to have it anyway, so it would probably be better that it was taken away.
Now what is so wrong with that? We already require such things for driving a car, driving a truck or bus or flying an aircraft...so why not for owning a gun?
Perhaps they will, you don't really know until you try. Perhaps it will work? After all, driving licenses were introduced in America after soaring fatalities in the newly introduced automobile provoked public outcry, and they have stayed since. Road vehicle fatality rates still remain high but this is a proportional increase as opposed to the high initial rate. In other words, more people drive cars therefore the likelihood of an accident increases.
Sure, it's not going to stop mass killings, it's not going to stop gang banger shootings...but it might reduce them, and surely that is worth a go?
Now you're just being silly.
