Originally Posted by
thesameguy
Yeah, that'd be my vision as well. That's how driver's license revocations/suspensions work, no reason a gun license needs to be any different.
There are certainly significant logistics in what happens next - do you turn in your gun? Is it held for you? Who holds it? If you don't turn it in, do the cops come after you? No idea. Any sort of regulation here is going to be complicated from an enforcement perspective.
I ultimately just don't have enough information to come to what I'd consider a useful opinion on this matter. I believe gun control is boondoggle from a variety of standpoints. People that want to do harm are going to do harm, whether it's driving a semi through a playground or burning down churches. I think attempts to legislate away tools of violence wastes resources that are better allocated towards managing causes of violence. I would much rather have more, better-educated police than a task force sent to collect firearms. I would rather have better [mental] healthcare than a bureaucracy that manages medical exceptions to gun licenses. I would rather have a ditch-digging public works program than bigger jails to house people who break gun possession laws.
In modern society where things are cheap and transport is easy I don't see a lot of value in bans on anything. I see huge value in giving people reasons and opportunities to get along. Our government has become so obsessed with validating itself with the creation of legislation that I believe it's lost sight of the actual goal. It'll all part of a broader myopia that affects us all.