Yeah, I think we're all in agreement about that here. But everyone isn't disarmed. I won't give up my gun until I know with 99% certainty that your average burglar won't get a hold of an illegal firearm.

In most of the UK, even the average police officer isn't armed. (In Northern Ireland, the average police officer is armed, but the amount of times the firearms are ever actually fired is incredibly rare. Most of the time they go off is actually negligent. When they do go off, they are always investigated.)

The problem is, how do you disarm the bad guys when you've been giving them guns without tracking them for decades

I'm against gun control generally, live in the US, and don't own a gun. Why? The chance that my kids find my guns and play with them causing a tragedy is much higher than the chance I'll need to use a gun. Crime is incredibly low in my area, with the most pressing crime on my neighbors' minds being a "break-in" (nobody locks their doors) several years before we moved in by akid in the neighborhood, and we've been here >10 years without any incidents.

So yeah, guns are more of a liability for me than a useful tool. However, not everyone lives in my area, so need for guns absolutely varies by area. I'd absolutely prefer an armed populace to the government having a monopoly on guns.

I do agree w/ sensible restrictions, and most mass shootings would be averted if we actually enforced the laws we have. Most of the time, someone close to the shooter knew they were a risk yet did nothing.

Most firearm deaths are either gang related or suicides. The solution there isn't banning guns, but solving the underlying problems. For those, I support:

• drug legalization - cuts down on incarceration, which should reduce conversions to organized crime
• cash redistribution - my preference is NIT, which is similar to UBI; helps prevent people from getting desperate
• reform prison system to focus on rehabilitation instead of punishment - maybe prisons get funded based on reduced recidivism?

IMO, guns aren't the problem, they're a tool. We need to solve the actual problems instead of putting kid gloves on everyone.