Banning guns will only take the guns out of the hands of honest people. We already have laws against bloody massacres -- but laws don't stop criminals. And there even is quite a bit of evidence that tighter gun laws cause an increase in violent crime rates, since a disarmed public makes a criminal's cost of doing business much lower, much like it did in that VT classroom that day.

But let's say it were possible to not only outlaw guns, but to eradicate them as well so that even the criminals don't have them. In this scenario, only the ruling elite will have access to these superior fighting tools. This is almost the case in England today. The result is a higher violent crime rate (physically weaker people can no longer defend themselves from young, strong criminals), but the more alarming and dangerous result is the effect it has had on the populace as a whole.

They are now merely sheep, or more accurately, neutered oxen, working their blue/white collar day-to-day jobs in the Big Brother Capital of the world, forfeiting 70% or more of the fruits of their labor to the Bank of England, the Queen, and the international coterie of insider financiers through their utopic Socialist system of control. The same is happening here in the US, but at least we have not yet been fully declawed and the hope of revolution is still alive and well.