The point of my comment is, if we can prove that most of the gun deaths are due to guns that were once legally purchased rather than guns smuggled into this country, than we can say that restricting the availability of legal guns would substantially decrease the number of deaths due to guns.
No, you moron. You see, we have hundreds of millions of guns lawfully owned in this nation. And only a tiny fraction of one percent are ever stolen and used in crime. That small number could easily be supplied by innumerable ways, if little tyrants like you managed to violate half of the Bill of Rights and confiscate all those guns.
You get 90% of guns, and there are still tens of millions available for theft, sale, etc. to criminals (after all, the 10% that keeps them will have been made into criminals by your little scheme.)
Oh, and what about the criminals who already have guns. You expect THEM to be turned in? No, the million guns now held by criminals will still be kept as the essential tools of their trade.
Criminals will NEVER be denied guns. They can, however, be deterred from using them (or stopped) by good citizens with guns.
If strict gun control laws are passed, guns can only be obtained in the black market and if the police have a buy back program, there would be a great reduction in guns on the black market.
If we have a comprehensive informant system where informants are paid $5000 per gun and $10000 per gun which is in the possession of a felon, we would greatly reduce the availability of guns