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I’m answering the first part for myself but I think unless/until the streets are safe and you don’t have to worry about being mugged or stores being looted or other forms of street crime, I don’t see any way you’ll convince people to give up guns. And so I think you’ll either going to need to rearm the police and get serious about “broken windows” policing, or deal with people wanting arms for self defense.
Most reformats I’ve seen are more like “disarm, then we’ll eventually circle back and deal with your concerns.” Which is frankly a bad deal and everybody knows it. If I said something like “give me your ring and then I’ll give you something for it later,” or worse “just give me your ring, and I’ll stop calling you a greedy ass,” nobody thinks this is a good deal. Nobody thinks it’s a reasonable idea. And no concerns are actually discussed. Like for people who want a gun because of break-ins or something, they’re not going to accept keeping the gun in a locker off-site. They’re not going to accept limits on bullets. Especially if they’ve had to deal with the cops and had a prowler and had to wait 15 minutes for the cops to show up, write a few notes and drive away. As self defense guys say “when seconds count, help is only minutes away.”
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