I own a gun (H&K P7), NRA lifetime member and have a CCW permit...
guns aren't the problem, people, or more accurately, their thought process is...
having said that, it's too easy to get one...
to get a permit in PA takes 5 minutes...no training, no insurance, no nothing, just a simple background check...
I would have no problem yeilding mine if I could be certain (to a reasonable degree) that ALL would be confiscated...
that means most cops too...only the very experienced and psychologically vetted should carry...
a society without guns will be safer...but the issue in the US is the genie is out of the bottle, millions out there, undocumented or controlled...
no way to ever get a handle on it...
I'm surprised no one mentioned the 2nd ammendment, the right to bear arms to keep our government 'honest'...
or Switzerland, all kinds of guns (full military type) in every males closet...yet hardly any homicides...
the American mentality is as much the problem, as the guns...