Fascists and other statists of every stripe along with people like this writer, whose personal and tragic loss has left her bereft of some basic common sense. The mother of her brother's girl friend didn't kill the two of them because she had a gun handy. She killed them because she was a crazy deranged old woman who likely would have picked up a butcher knife or run them down with her car to do the deed.
Exactly.
Ignoring for a moment the utter imbecility of trying to confiscate handguns at bazillions of dollars of taxpayer expense from the millions of people who use them legitimately FOR SELF-DEFENSE FROM EVIL CRIMINALS, if this woman was so determined to commit murder that she went through all of the trouble she is alleged to have gone through, the simple lack of a handgun would NEVER have deterred her.
She would have simply turned either to use of a car, a hammer applied to the back of the head (just as easy for an old lady to use as a handgun), or rat poison.
The proposed "solution" has PRECISELY ZERO chance of achieving the desired effect, and has a 100% PERCENT chance of preventing honest, law-abiding elderly grandfathers from defending themselves against being beaten to death by thugs; and a 100% PERCENT chance of keeping kind middle-aged women from defending themselves against being raped and strangled with pantyhose.