name any period in history that was free of violence. take as much time as you like.
while i absolutely agree with you that violence is a huge problem, guns make it that much easier for people to do something violent, and the sheer number of guns out there is frightening. why not do something positive to remove part of the problem by going after the guns that being held illegally? i'd think that gun rights activists would want to do something to protect their rights to lawfully own guns by trying to rid the country of the illegally owned ones. after all, every time new legislation comes up, all we hear is "this will only punish the legal gun owners, and not the criminals." so let's go after the criminals.