There are over 300 million guns in the US and more than 100 million gun owners. You can't do anything about that.
He's right about that. You could ban sale and manufacture today, and there will 299M in 100 years, plus 1 million destroyed in house fires.
It's stupid to try
Not about that. it's stupid to do nothing. At this point, best we can do is try to control who gets them, magazine size, where they are allowed, when you can legally shoot a person (Stand Your Ground), etc.
It's prolly more of a predicament than a problem.
“A problem calls for a solution; the only question is whether one can be found and made to work, and once this is done, the problem is solved. A predicament, by contrast, has no solution. Faced with a predicament, people come up with responses. Those responses may succeed, they may fail, or they may fall somewhere in between, but none of them “solves” the predicament, in the sense that none of them makes it go away.”
The Archdruid Report. Problems and Predicaments |
