>>Australia had mandatory confiscation. Completely and totally impractical. And by the way, assaults and sexual assaults have skyrocketed in Australia since the confiscation. That's from the Australian Institute of Criminology

Even if percentages did carry information about cause and effect: how are rates of sexual and non-sexual assault connected to firearm control?!

In Australia's case, the RATE of firearm homicides fell by half almost immediately after control was introduced and stayed there, while the rate of firearm suicides fell 80%. The rate of homicides is 1.2-1.4 per 100,000 with firearm killings a small fraction of that. Compare to the US rate of around 5 per 100,000 mostly involving firearms.

In fairness- the US rate also fell by half (used to be almost 10%) for different reasons, so the percentages themselves are not a proof either way. "Figures don't lie but liars figure" etc etc.

>>You can pass 100 laws and it won't mean a bloody thing if they are not enforced.

True. But even if laws are enforced: how many will see it as patriotic to cache illegal weapons for protection against Muslim infiltration of government even worse than the dirty Communists? Then those weapons will leach into the criminal fraternity forever...