re: #40 iossarian

There’s no reason to get upset - we agree on 99% of this but for some reason we’re having a fight over whether it’s reasonable to say that banning guns altogether would make people safer. I think it would.

Right now, at our present moment, it would not, because of the sheer number of guns out there. If we were starting from scratch, sure. We’re not, and talking as though we are is useless.

Other than extremely limited situations such as witness protection programs I can’t really see how you’d come up with a way of defining people who “have an actual reason to worry about home safety” and who would be any safer with a gun than without one.

I’m not trying to define them, since I’m not trying for a total gun ban. I want to regulate guns so that everyone who has one has to pass a tactical test with a high bar for whatever purpose they have the gun for, and to keep it highly secure.

How are you going to achieve your total gun ban?