Comment Re:"an act of social provocation"? (Score 2) 367
The point is that in the very near future, guns will be incredibly easy to manufacture. It does not matter if you ban sales. If someone really wants a gun, they will be able to machine their own, and not too terribly long after that, simply feed a series of instructions into a machine that will create the gun without any required skills on part of the person pushing the button.
The point is that you can't solve crime and gun crime with restrictions in a future where it's easy to get a gun whenever you want one and it's even harder for the government to clamp down on the manufacture and distribution. That will not stop criminals or crazy people who really want to harm others. The point is that you need a good social safety net that can prevent people from turning to crime and provide medical help to people who might express violent tendencies so that they don't go on any kind of rampage.
The funny (tragic) part is that the kind of people who tend to be strongly pro-gun, also tend to be strong against social programs that could prevent a great deal of the violence typically associated with guns.