Supposing that one could regulate guns to be legally (almost) out of existence? What then?
Chicago had one of the most restrictive gun laws in the nation for many years. Did the city attempt to use that law to locate and confiscate guns from unregistered owners?
Certainly not, and especially not in the areas most subject to gun violence, such as Englewood and Gresham. The cries of “racism” and “profiling” would have soared to the ionosphere.
So to avoid doing this in a discriminatory manner, the police would have to proactively search for and confiscate guns from persons, vehicles, and homes from Edgewater to Hegewisch.
How many cops would this take, and for how long?
And what would it take to scale this to the national level?
