The government has waited too late. The scenario that you paint would have been relatively easy right after John Kennedy was killed. Few guns were in the public hands, other than hunting rifles and shotguns. Even fewer pistols were to be found - and ammunition for the above wasn't being stockpiled by the owners, other than maybe a couple of boxes. Put all of that with the fact that most people were not truly afraid of home invasions and street crime other than a few major cities.
Now fast forward to the current times. There are huge numbers of guns in the hands of American citizens and the stockpiles of ammunition is there also. Home invasions and street crime are not just confined to the worst areas in certain cities. The American people have finally discovered what we all knew back in the forties and fifties - the police are not numerous enough to PROTECT EVERY CITIZEN. They never have been and it has never been their job. Their primary job is to help PREVENT crime and to solve the crimes that do happen. They cannot and will not be around when most attempted robberies and assaults happen - that is why we see so many people choosing to be obtain gun carry permits in the states where allowed. (If you cannot fathom this, think of all the people who have been attacked that already have obtained a "restraining order" on the attacking person. If the legal system cannot protect ONE single person whom they already have been notified of is in need of protection AND the police KNOW the name of the potential attacker. That should tell you that you have better odds of winning the lottery than having a policeman on site to protect you if you are assaulted.0
Americans are not as docile as the citizens of England. Unlike the relatively calm times of the fifties, we are now aware of the threat of confiscation. But unlike the fifties, there are now enough gun owners with an attitude that would awaken even our pathetically naive Congressmen to the dangers (socially, politically, and morally) to this country if a confiscation were attempted.
When the government decides to protect our borders, close the revolving prison doors on the repeat criminal, enforce the current laws vigorously and quickly, and build whatever prisons it takes to contain the criminal element, then they would maybe have an argument on tighter gun control. But we now are the hunted, rather then hunter, due to the lack of resolve from both the government and the citizenry to solve the criminal problem. Americans are not used to being the hunted - we don't like it and we won't tolerate it, and we will own guns.
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