Let's just get it out in the open - who supports confiscation of firearms?

[Damansarajaya]

69. This is a good question.

Because the only gun laws that really work to reduce gun violence are gun bans. It's like swimming pools. If you ban them, then no children would ever accidentally drown in one.

But gun bans are impossible here, folks. Just forget it. It cannot happen.

We have to deal with reality. I'm a gun owner and what I'm going to say will anger a lot of other gun owners, but I'd like to see more thorough background checks with a special license to own guns (like a driver's license), safe storage laws, and national gun registration.

A number of gun reduction efforts have shown to be ineffective: gun buybacks absolutely don't work for instance (see "Freakonomics" author Steven Levitt), and in fact put money into gun owners' hands so they can sell their trash and buy more lethal modern weapons.

But trying to outlaw guns or types of guns is political suicide in rural states. Democrats did decades of damage from the very bad and ineffective "assault weapons" ban in the '90's.