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I advocate for strict gun control, but every time I read "we should just ban guns" I cringe.

It's never that simple. Aside from the hundreds of millions of weapons already in circulation, and the absolute cultural impossibility of removing and destroying them all, the safest countries on the planet DON'T "ban all guns". They strictly regulate them. The places with the highest murder rates are typically the places with zero tolerance gun policies (and they are also typically poorer and can typically be classified as third world). The countries in Europe that people refer to, as well as places like Australia, have guns alongside strong, effective gun control laws.

Gun control, not gun banning, is what the US needs. And it needs to be nation-wide, not state by state. Only something like this would be effective.