First of all, guns will never disappear from the USA and that should not be part of any solution discussed IMO as it’s a pipe dream that plays into the fear of gun nuts. You didn’t really elaborate as much as backpedal on your melting down suggestion lol. What needs to happen is logical, workable solutions that may possibly (doubt it) have a chance to be implemented. Yes it’s way beyond reasonable to most Canadians what is happening re open/concealed carry, no or little background checks, etc.. For us Canadians it seems ridicules that these things are allowed. As seen from all of the discussion here, fear is a huge factor in what is going on there. That is a minuscule fear for most of us living in Canada but it is something that also must be considered when joining in the conversation. As much as it is a statistical fallacy, reading the daily headlines portrays it as a legitimate fear. I realized you are just having a discussion and throwing ideals out but keeping them doable would add more to your legitimacy.
You won't eliminate them, but you will reduce the numbers dramatically. Often guns the government takes after crimes are sold at auction and go back into circulation, that is what happened with the AR15 that killed those school kids recently. Once the government gets the gun it is melted down, the idea being that it doesn't end up back on the street. I don't think sudden and dramatic change in America is possible politically, changes will be incremental and small at first. Unfortunately, their gun problem is our gun problem with smuggled guns. When my dad passed away, we had a .22 and a 12-gauge shotgun, nobody wanted them, so they were turned into the cops. Fewer people are hunting every year. As for my proposals for gun reduction in the states, they are to show Americas what is possible, many think the 2nd came from God and nothing can be done. It will take a long time, but 3% of the population own 50% of the guns, most are just collectors, but some are wingnuts, mass murders always seem to have an arsenal. I have posted many times my thoughts on gun control in America and in the end, it does involve melting them down, but that is at the end of a long road, but that road has to start somewhere.
I'm getting out of the drone hobby for several reasons, one is regulations, I don't like them, and I don't think a hobby drone or RC plane has killed anybody, in the hobby. However, since the war in Ukraine my views have changed, not much, but it did cause a shift, these can be easily converted into weapons of war and murder. You can kill someone from miles away with a suicide drone or plane and I have no idea how they will control it, since you can buy this shit online. I'm a licensed drone pilot and the regs are very heavy, but I agree with most of them, even though they killed many aspects of the hobby. However licensed drone pilots are not the problem, terrorists and murders are, drones don't kill people, people kill people, sound familiar. I agree with the regs and wish a license meant more rights to the sky, but it is what it is. Drones are a lot less dangerous than guns though and have other uses than killing. I have a license and my drones and planes all have a registration number attached and soon ID in the sky will be a requirement so that by pointing a cellphone at a drone you can ID it and the location of the pilot, I assume so they can go and murder them with a gun if they should be paranoid or nuts.
