people coming to get your guns will be exactly like building a border wall -
AINT GONNA F'N HAPPEN.
write that ^^^^^^^^^^ down.
^^^^^^^ maybe the cutest retort by those on the left used to deflect. It's seen over and over and over.
Here's the problem with it. To accomplish the stated goal, that being to reduce death, you pretty much have to come get the guns, or admit you really don't care about the number of dead and additionally admit that you are using the dead as political pawns. And the left can't confiscate guns, because the chances that it would accomplish the goal, stop mass killings (I love it when someone posts, "but it would stop gun deaths") is roughly the same as waiting for the day pigs will grow wings and fly. So if they confiscate guns, and the mass killings continue by other means, they committed political suicide. The fact is they know this but need to put up a show, it's what they do. They take a tragic event and try to create a panic to garner votes without really having a good answer. To someone in a state of panic, any answer is a good one.
Let's start with the push to ban AR-15 style semi-automatic rifles. You need to ask the question as to what number of life's that a ban of that kind would save? It's actually impossible to know, could be a few, could be none or it could be that the ban would actually result in more lost life's. It is the unknown that the left uses to create panic within the public.
There is no evidence that, lacking an AR-15 style semi-automatic rifle, that the young Maniac in Florida wouldn't have simply brought a couple of semi-automatic pistols and accomplished the same number of deaths, maybe fewer, but maybe more. You simply cannot make a determination on whether it would be higher or lower. To do so would be speculative and no one has paranormal powers to factually make that determination.
So then, the left would have to admit that, either they need to ban semi-automatic hand guns, along with AR-Style rifles. Unless of course, they really don't care about deaths, just that they were looking to create panic and score political points from a tragic event.
I could go on with this through any number of weapons, but you get my point by now unless the whole "We must stop these killings" ploy is simply disingenuous. If it is not simply a political ploy, you must call for a total ban on guns, or nothing stops. The killings would likely still happen, just the weapon used changes, and it might be a weapon that the left would have a far harder time to demonize, cars, trucks, vans or pipes. All used in mass casualty event.
But here is what the left really banks it's arguments on. "If AR style rifles were illegal these deaths would not occur", or would be far less. Guess we need to trust those with paranormal abilities to tell us if that's true or not.
Let's take the Vegas shooting as an example, and lets, for a moment delve into the "what if's".
What if a millionaire wanted to kill 50+ people, didn't have access to AR style rifles? What evidence is there that someone, with his resources couldn't have found another method to accomplish the same body count? Maybe a greater body count? But then again, since he was unable to get hold of an AR style rifle, we wouldn't have a body count to compare his death count in the first place, would we? This is the lefts strongest argument. If we would have banned these things in the first place, these people would be alive today. Maybe so, but maybe 50+ people would be dead just walking down the street, or 100's would be dead sitting in their office. A Monster with enormous resources can accomplish incredible feats.
If the left were genuine in their beliefs, which they are not, they would have to call for a complete gun ban. The problem is, and they actually know, if they should call for it, and mass killings continued (which they likely would because we are not addressing the core issue of what turns these people into murderous Monsters in the first place) after successfully banning guns, they would look like fools and lose the very power they seek.
Rock vs. Hard Place