On: Taiwan ban single-use plastic straws, plastic bags...

[monk_e_boy]

Same idea for guns. Buy back guns for $10,000 each. Soon have guns under control and off the streets.

People would be breaking into each others houses to sell them.

[icebraining → monk_e_boy]

Soon have guns under control

Or, more likely, they would make more guns to compensate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect

[sundvor → icebraining]

The implicit step one being that sale of guns / assault rifles were banned, as it should be.

[icebraining → sundvor]

The War on Drugs is a testament that simply banning something definitively means it disappears.

[kelnos → icebraining]

People don't get psychologically addicted to guns like they do to most drugs. Gun bans are perfectly successful in drastically reducing gun violence in countries other than the US.

[icebraining → kelnos]

I don't disagree, but most guns bans in other countries don't include paying $10k per weapon, which is the proposal here.

[thaumasiotes → kelnos]

People are plenty addicted to being paid $10K per to manufacture guns. Who needs to sell them?

[kelnos → thaumasiotes]

I don't think you get what the word "addicted" means.

Also, obviously you need to ban the manufacture of such weapons before you offer to buy them back.

[oh_sigh → monk_e_boy]

That would cost $3T if everyone turned their guns in.

[794CD01 → oh_sigh]

And would be a better use of the money than most other things the government does already.

[megy → 794CD01]

Like schools, roads, medicare, research, etc??? OK.