I agree that guns should eventually been done away with. My concern is that dispensing ourselves of them now would leave any revolutionary movement vulnerable to slaughter. I don't trust our bourgeois to not massacre us should we try to do away with them. Peaceful revolutions aren't impossible but I don't think they are feasible if the domestic bourgeois feel they can react with immense violence at no risk to themselves.

Not really. It's just these two examples that work out in contrast. Switzerland has a buttload of guns per capita and is one of the safest places in the world. And to use the UK again, it has about as many knives as other countries I'm guessing, but far more knife violence. It's desperation that breeds violence. There's a much stronger correlation between wealth disparity and violence vs weapons and violence.

Now don't get me wrong, gun regulation is sorely needed in the US, but it's not a fix to its violence problem.

Guns are in fact the only method to achieve revolution. A General strike/targeted boycott, etc... are reformist (and yes leftists can be reformist as well), AND they also tend to ignore the material reality if you try and use them as a revolutionary tool.

Historically guns or the threat of them have been the only way revolution has happened.