Punish, Kendall? Is limiting availability of arsenic...or dynamite..punishment? Both do have uses.

...but they aren't nearly as interesting to collect, are they?

Yes, I'm being a smart-alec, but guns are craved by people who have little use for them simply because they have such a history and ....ummmm..'panache'. For WAY too many folks, just 'having' a gun makes them feel.....something... important? safe? powerful? It differs, but I have seen it work. It doesn't make everyone who has one feel that way, but kids 'find' them and take them to school, and 'play' with them among friends.

Ask yourself...if we could collect *ALL* guns,and start over, just distributing them to qualified and sane people who need them, what might we do different? And how might we approach that ideal from where we are now?