> I'm not talking about the "right"
>to bear arms, I'm talking about the practicality of banning guns in a
>society where many people own guns. It ain't going to happen
It happened here in Australia. Self-loading shotguns and rifles (even down to pump-action shotguns and .22 calibre semi-auto rabbit rifles) were banned. A lot of people had them, but they were banned and the existing ones were destroyed. Not 100% of them of course, but I would say 99.95% of them were collected and destroyed. It can be done. You are simply wrong about it being impossible.
Bill Bartlett Brackell Tas