Fail. I live under no illusions. Mental illness will never be eradicated. I also know that if the impossible was accomplished, and ALLLLL guns from the single shot handy rifle to the AK-47were scooped up and melted down that
1. gangsters and thugs would get them from Mexico,
2. that loons like Lanza would just spend time on the inter webs learning new and interesting ways to kill mass amounts of people much like this fellow here-
Cologne school massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On June 11, 1964, shortly after 9 o'clock, Seifert approached the schoolyard of the Catholic elementary school located at Volkhovener Weg 209-211, armed with a self-made flamethrower, lance and mace. The school consisted of one main building and four wooden barracks, each housing two classes with a total of eight teachers and 380 students.
But according to you, this type of thing is acceptable because he did not use a gun, but instead turned a piss pump into a flame thrower, and packed a spear as back up and only eight kids burnt to death. Mass shootings are rare, and in all cases, were inevitable. Had guns been 100% banned, then the perps would have found another way. You, like the other side of this argument are dazzled by all the purty lights, so much so that you miss the point which is, how do you stop crazy people from killing other people be it with a knife, gun, car, sarin gas, flame throwers, lawn mowers or what ever.