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It would require a constitutional amendment to outright ban guns, and our Congress can't agree on year to year budgeting. Getting the required votes to ban guns would be functionally impossible. Honestly even if it didn't require an amendment I don't think it would be realistically passed as a regular law.
So: banning guns outright is off the table entirely.
More gun controls always seemed to be approached in an incredibly stupid way- they tend to ban the scary things rather than the dangerous things.
Tbh, "banning the dangerous things" is still not the way to solve this problem imo.
Like could we be incredibly abelist and say "the mentally ill can't have guns anymore?" Yes, we could, and that may help against mass shootings, but it also further stigmatizes the mentally ill, most of whom will never commit a crime like that anyway since tbh mass shootings are only .001% of our gun crime so it is unlikely. Could we be incredibly racist and say "well 12% of the population commits 50% of the crime, so no more guns for black people?" Yes we could, in fact that was the point of Pistol Purchase Permits and CCW permits, often they require sheriff approval and if that sheriff is a racist, the sheriff who is a police officer in America, where the cops are kinda known for being racist, he can deny the peemit "for any reason." And yes it is still being used like that in some areas.
Could we say no calibers above .30? I guess, but that would include .45ACP, seems like a dumb thing to ban a fat slow round that can be eaten by a 2x4 (hyperbole but actually not by much lol). And what of 12ga? No Turkey hunting because slugs also exist?
Could we ban all rifles? Yeah, but they are only responsible for 0.2% of our gun deaths at 500/60,000. Not very effective.
Could we ban handguns? Probably not tbh. The support isn't there yet, they need to get the scary rifles banned first so they can say "see that didn't work we need to ban handguns now."
Imo we need to find out and address the reasons for the violence, be it economic instability, or our shit ass school system training people to be factory drones in a country without factories, or whatever. Sure it's harder, but "all things that are worth doing take effort." People are looking for an "easy way out," but there just straight up isn't one.