Your Preferred Answer on Gun Control

[Matrosov]

32. I'll admit

A complete ban + confiscation is an interesting and entertaining thing to discuss in an online forum. Where there are no significant consequences...

I'll admit that there's not a very practical manner in which to go about it.

There could be confiscation in the sense of outlawing private firearm ownership and then asking people to drop by the police station and handing over their weapons. But no doubt the ones who'd least be likely to turn them in would be the ones most likely to use them in a crime.

There could be confiscation in the sense of first requiring all future sales to be registered in a national database, then outlawing private firearm ownership, asking people to turn them in voluntarily, and then having law enforcement go have a chat with anyone in the database who hadn't handed over their weapons yet. But no doubt this would overlook the vast majority of firearms who hadn't been registered.

There could be confiscation in the sense of having law enforcement go from home to home and manually turn every place upside down, searching for firearms. But no doubt this would require insane amounts of resources, and I personally think this is more fitting for a totalitarian state than for the USA.

So while I'd say that total confiscation is the most effective way of stopping gun crime, there's no effective way of engaging in total confiscation.