I’ve already had this debate in posts at my local newspaper. The editorial page espoused an ammunition tax shortly after the tragedy. I noted how quickly we were past the “grieving for little kids” phase and into the “screwing legal gun owners” phase.
You can’t tax away evil.
This is the way it goes, FRiend. First there's a national tragedy that brings all people to the table to discuss gun control. Cooler, statistically- and fact-based heads NEVER prevail, and gun control laws are enacted.
After the new laws are in place, even greater, more egregious crimes are committed, oftentimes with stolen firearms. Then come the calls to get ALL of the firearms away from EVERYONE, and thus blanket confiscation is called for in order to "prevent this from happening EVER again."
You have your holdouts, but most people would willingly give up their arms under the threat of prosecution or death at the hands of the ATF/FBI/FEMA/HHS, etc. Overtime the violent crime rates soar, first in the inner cities and then out into the suburbs and the rural areas. Home invasions would soar, rapes, murders, gang activities would increase across the board. People would be unable to defend themselves. There would be calls for more police. Communist/Fascist governments would call for military to patrol every city and street. Then you get martial law.
Eventually, the power hungry in DC would institute lockdowns and curfews. People would be unable to go anywhere without providing papers. We would become prisoners in our own homes. Any level of social engineering up to and including genocide could then occur at the hands of a narcissistic megalomaniac like the Marxist faggot in chief.
Knives would be outlawed at some point in all of this, but it won't matter. By then, if you're lucky enough to still be alive, you'd either be imprisoned "for your protection" in a camp or otherwise mixed up with illegal elements of society.
There's a very minimal amount of suspension of disbelief necessary for this to be believable. The right forces are in place now, and really the last and only hope is that good men (and women) refuse to be disarmed and fight the oppressors who are demanding it. Storm clouds are brewing.