A tragic mistake? About 100 times a day somewhere in this nation, police will smash in a door and charge into a citizens home with sub machine guns. The cure is far worse than the disease.
Perhaps you do not care for the 4th amendment protections we used to have but I do. There are two ways to get a person to conform to your ideals. Force or persuasion. People demanding government force be used to make people conform is not working. In fact it backfired.
Gun grabbers blame guns for crime. Drug warriors blame a plant for crime. Drug warriors and gun grabbers are cast in the same mold.
It isn't a "cure" it is a "treatment", and no, it is *NOT* worse than the disease. The disease will destroy a nation. We know this because it already happened once in history.