Why then Evelyn, in your perfect world where all the guns were rounded up, would cops need guns? Wouldn't a heavy stick suffice? Why would cops still need guns?
Then we would need heavy stick control laws, then medium stick laws, then little stick laws, then....
My wife forsees a day when no mother will send her child out of the house unless he/she is swaddled in bubblewrap from head to toe and topped off with a crash helmet.