So. We are paranoid to worry about them confiscating our guns, are we?

[Morganite]

I'll just leave you with this, then

That's a rather... head-in-the-sand tack to take when actual spurious confiscations are taking place. Or do you think having ever been on anti-anxiety medication isn't one?

On gun bootlegging: There's already a pattern of California residents leaving the state to buy things that state's laws bar. Why should we think it wouldn't happen on a larger scale given larger scale bans?

Also, cost isn't the only thing that matters. Canada's gun laws might not be as onerous as you think.

Background checks and licensing, though, do keep weapons out of the hands of the mentally ill.

Citation needed, as they say. Everything I hear makes it sound like people who snap and go on rampages do not, in fact, exhibit any obvious signs before doing it.

Also, how do you keep the system from being abused? There's a guy on the TV Tropes forum who, in a perfect world, would like a psychiatric evaluation to be required for a gun permit... but in the world we've got, knows that there'd be a lot of people rejected due to political bias. It'd probably invite the same "you can get a gun if and only if you're rich" problems that have been seen in may-issue districts, too.

-Morgan.