Another mass shooting.....

[The Grand Nudger]

It is obvious, and none of your dodges are going to work. WE MAKE TOO MANY AND THEY ARE TOO EASY TO GET.

It is that simple.

-and this is why we don't have effective gun control.  The people who want it most are too busy chasing dragons. You can -quantify- the problem for them and they lose their shit, and resist suggestions to take direct and specific action against that. No, no, let's go after the big bad factories.

If we want to reduce gun crime, and gun death..yes, we need to enforce POS (and possession)..and along with that we need to create a buyback program that takes the ubiquitous weapons used in crime off the streets. We know what they are, we know their caliber, their make, and even the year of their manufacture. We have a really good idea which states and cities they're largely condensed in (and what states they flow from and to). We even know the people who own them..the people who facilitate the P2P transfers. We can tailor every part of this to a T.

It's not that it would be impossible..or even very hard to do, or that it couldn;t survive a constitutional challenge, or even that we need new laws. You know what the problem is? It;s boring. It's tedious ass gruntwork that doesn;t lend itself well to being attached to bigger, politically valuable issues. The Hur Dur Death Merchant Corporations clique can't get behind it, and it's hard to scream "My cold dead hands" when somebody wants to buy your dusty ass pistol that you haven't fired in three years.

Plans like this are routinely proposed...they just don't get the support they need, from either side of the aisle. When they do, they're inarguably successful. The federal assualt rifle ban didn't do a damned thing...but the mandatory waiting period for pistols was a hit.