I agree with Visaki. The situation is similar in Austria. Merely unholstering your gun as a policeman requires an incredible amount of paperwork later on.
I believe, though I can not prove it, that police gun use is proportionate to what society does with guns, with causal connections going both ways. Reduce one and you're likely to reduce the other.
Now, as for tuxbox's points:
Doesn't matter. Ban ammunition. I remember that Chris Rock sketch: If a bullet is so crazily expensive that nobody can buy them, or alternatively if bullets are banned from being sold, then there may be some residual violence at first, but soon the ammo will run out. Once bullets run out, you can start taking back the guns.
Point being?
There are ways, though I might not know them all. I'm curious: How did the Australians do it? They bought them back, they gave them incentives to relinquish their weapons. I'm sure most Americans wouldn't mind a bit of extra $$$.
I believe, though I can not prove it, that police gun use is proportionate to what society does with guns, with causal connections going both ways. Reduce one and you're likely to reduce the other.
Now, as for tuxbox's points:
1) How do you get the guns out of the hands of gang bangers? Gun laws mean jack shit to them!
Doesn't matter. Ban ammunition. I remember that Chris Rock sketch: If a bullet is so crazily expensive that nobody can buy them, or alternatively if bullets are banned from being sold, then there may be some residual violence at first, but soon the ammo will run out. Once bullets run out, you can start taking back the guns.
2) There are over 270 million guns in America. That's more than 10 times the Australian population!
Point being?
3) How do you get the people to give up their guns? Through a buy back program? Or do you send in the Feds into every home in America and forcibly take them? If it is the latter, then we have a civil war on our hands. It will be very ugly to say the least.
There are ways, though I might not know them all. I'm curious: How did the Australians do it? They bought them back, they gave them incentives to relinquish their weapons. I'm sure most Americans wouldn't mind a bit of extra $$$.