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You're just engaging in fantasy if you think that a gun ban would actually get rid of guns in the hands of Those People. Do you have any idea how many unregistered guns are in private hands, especially right-wingers? It's hundreds of millions.
Now imagine that every one of those was declared immediately illegal. Try to imagine the logistics of going around to collect them all up. How many police officers does it take to bring down one armed attacker now? You know they send a whole squad out. How many do you think it would take to go take away hundreds of millions of guns whose owners don't want to give them up?
It is simply not possible.
You would be better off to buy your own guns than to hold out hope that the fascists will have theirs taken away.
This is stupid. It's like saying we shouldn't ban crack because of all the private crack collections that people have. No one claims it's going to get rid of 100% of crack in the country, but it is going to solve a lot of problems.
Banning guns will have a massive, possibly even overnight reduction in the number of gun deaths and mass shootings in the country (and technically the entire world). Some ammosexuals might try going out with a bang, but once those get cleaned out society will improve significantly for everyone.
Crack gets used up, meanwhile I've got a 75-year-old rifle that still functions, well maybe not fine, but about the same as it did off the assembly line
M1A?
Type 53, supposedly a trophy from Vietnam