close enough? I always find the notion of "ban all guns" to be a ridiculous idea. I mean, what do you really expect from that? A police force to go through every square inch of land, every building with metal detectors to look for guns? It is laughable. What about hunters? Or those who use them for sport? What about all the jobs of those who design, build, repair, and train others in the use of (those seminars sure ain't cheep!)? On the other hand, I find stricter gun laws to be perfectly viable and acceptable approach. Also, I find incentives (moneeyyy) for those turning in guns another fine approach to remove them from houses that really don't need or want them. Anecdot, my favorite teacher is former military, and has been saved from a mugging and high jack of his car (if not more) from a man with a knife. All he did was point to the gun in his holster on his hip and the guy ran off. No lives lost.