Although a lot of people believe we would be better off without the guns, there has never been a bill introduced in Congress to take away guns from all law abiding citizens. We have minimum age laws, restrictions on ownership by convicted felons and mentally impaired and we have laws that restrict ownership of certain types of guns such as machine guns and assault rifles. However, guns are widely available in every state and in fact there are more that 400 million guns, more guns than people. Yet there are gun enthusiasts that fight again any restrictions on the sale of guns, not matter how lethal those guns may be nor how dangerous the buyer may be to the public.
It is obvious nonsense for anyone to believe we would be better off without guns for many reasons.
The first of which is that this democratic republic only exists due to the armed rebellion against the British monarchy.
Which is not a fluke. All countries were dictatorships until the invention of firearms allow for the majority to rise up against them.
Second is that the DOJ stats say everyone will become the victim of on average 2.5 serious crimes in your life.
Whether you survive or die likely depends on whether or not you have arms.
So anyone unarmed is simply foolish.
They are ignoring reality.
Sure there can be some laws, but whenever someone mentions "assault rifles", you can tell they are corrupted by false propaganda.
There absolutely is NO SUCH THING as an assault rifle.
The AR-15 is semi-automatic, so its not at all similar in any way to the military M-16 that is fill auto.
The reality is that the AR-15 uses about the single weakest bullet make for rifles.
It is so weak and small, it was a mistake for the military to use it at all, since it is so short range.
It is not even legal for deer hunting because it won't kill, but just wound.
The M-16 was used as an assault weapon in Vietnam, but the M-1 carbine was used that way in WWII, a pump shotgun was used for that in WWI, a pair of revolvers was used for that in the Civil War, a coach gun or blunderbuss was used for that in the Revolutionary war, etc.
The point being that the ordinary weapons can all be used as an assault weapon, and is characterized by use, not any traits of the weapon itself, except that it has to be light, small, and portable.
The propaganda characterizing it as somehow powerful is false. Assault weapons tend to be weak so they do not have as much recoil to deal with, and are intended for short range, so do not need power.