You cannot uninvent something.
Anyone with access to a machine shop and some skills can build a gun.
There is a thriving home built firearm community. Many of my friends have built their own as have members of my family. 100% legal. Zero incidents.
Anyone can load their own ammunition
$15 and a trip to Home Depot, the dollar store and the grocery store can make a pretty lethal potatoe gun. It uses hair spray as the propellant. Stuff a potatoe down the barrel and drop a handful of nails and you’ve just made a very effective single shot shotgun.
These little tidbits simply destroy any hopes of controlling guns.
Hey, let’s look at Jamaica. http://jpfo.org/filegen-a-m/jamaica.htm
The article notes 1972 as the year Jamaicans were forcibly debarred the use of guns.
At that point, the murder rate was 8 per 100,000 residents. In 2015, it was 64 per 100,000 residents.
Yea libs, let’s have that national conversation. Just be prepared to get burned by facts rather than emotion.
If we get back to basics-and the fact that some will-and can-kill with anything, the answer to everything is HANDS. Without hands crime is almost nil. Inanimate objects must be utilized by hands, otherwise they just lay there and hurt no one.