If we locked up all gun owners, It would save the lives of 30,000 US ciitizens per year.
There is not one shred of evidence this would happen. And plenty of evidence that the murder rate would go higher. Read this(
http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol30_No2_KatesMauseronline.pdf) and try to become somewhat educated on what you speak about.
Oh, I am pretty sure, boat, that if every gun owner were locked up, there would not be any gun deaths in the civilian community...unless they go back to what they did in the 1940's, and started making "Zip guns'. I know that you are too young to remember that. Look it up.
Yes, too young to remember many zip guns, but I know what they are. Of course the newer alternative to the zip gun will be the "printed" gun.
Yes, if we were to be able to magically find everyone in America with a gun (both the criminals AND the law abiding citizens), lock them up, and take away their guns, then yes, we would have a significant drop in the fire-arm death rate.
However, in exchange for locking up millions of law abiding citizens, the overall murder/suicide rate would most likely not change at all. Look at what has happened in the past to the murder/suicide rate in developed nations who confiscated weapons from law abiding citizens. From
http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol30_No2_KatesMauseronline.pdf
"In 2004, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences released its evaluation from a review of 253 journal articles, 99 books, 43 government
publications, and some original empirical research. It failed to identify any gun control that had reduced violent crime, suicide,
or gun accidents.15 The same conclusion was reached in 2003 by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control’s review of then extant
studies.
Stringent gun controls were not adopted in England and Western Europe until after World War I. Consistent with the
outcomes of the recent American studies just mentioned, these strict controls did not stem the general trend of ever‐growing
violent crime throughout the post‐WWII industrialized world including the United States and Russia.....In the late 1990s, England
moved from stringent controls to a complete ban of all handguns and many types of long guns.
Hundreds of thousands of guns were confiscated from those owners law‐abiding enough to turn them in to authorities.
Without suggesting this caused violence, the ban’s ineffectiveness was such that by the year 2000 violent crime had so increased
that England and Wales had Europe’s highest violent crime rate, far surpassing even the United States."
Become educated on the ACTUAL political science on the subject. All your liberal ideas on gun control have been tried and they have failed to stem the tide of violence.