The simple fact that as more guns are purchased, major crimes decline, kind of contradicts your hypothesis.
No, it doesn't, note i said "gun crime" not crime.
The majority of criminals buy their guns from legitimate dealers, who either get duped into selling to them, or who sell knowing its illegal.
No dealers= less guns
It would take time, but in 20 years, gun crime would be way down. Again, crime involving a gun.
...and it would have prevented what happened at Sandy Hook.
Guns were banned at Sandy Hook and it didn't prevent anything. Just more evidence that gun control laws don't prevent crime and may even encourage it. There are far too many firearms already here, and they are far too durable, for a ban to reduce access seriously without removing the ones people already own which would:
1. Be impossible
2. Start a bloodbath
Well ain't the above a crock of shit. First of all the shooter at Sandy Hook wasn't a criminal. Till he started killing people.
But you want to talk about what is criminal? What is criminal is that people like you support the right of people like the killers mom to walk in and buy however much firepower their pocket book can afford. And no one has any interest in what will happen with all that firepower.
You think the shooters mom was what YOU would call a responsible gun owner? Having those kinds of guns, unlocked, ammo at hand and with a mentally unstable kid in the house.
And you support the right to be stupid about guns. Like this shooters mom was. At least she paid for her stupidity. But so are a lot of other people that wanted nothing to do with her gun fetish. Fuk that.