
Originally Posted by
cstone
Laws don't disarm people. They only provide incentives to those who voluntarily choose to disarm or penalize those who choose not to disarm. The police collect guns from both those who legally or illegally possess guns. Many who could recover their confiscated gun choose not to for reasons of practicality. It is often cheaper to buy another gun than jump through the bureaucratic hoops to recover one taken.
No government could completely disarm a society that chooses not to comply. It would take more police than The War on Drugs and The War on Terror combined, and like those pseudo conflicts a War on Guns would inevitably fail.
Where there is a will, there will be a way.