Nobody can say just exactly how many guns Americans own. So like we do "scientifically" for salmon and moose we estimate. Pew Research came up with rough numbers of between 270 and 310 million guns.Currently the US population, also an estimate, stands around 316 million potential victims.There are other survey's and totals vary but they all say one thing with certainty; the are a massive number of guns in circulation in Mr. Roger's Neighborhood and everyone elses. This being the case I think we can put the notion of the government taking away your guns to rest because to do so would simply be impossible because there are just to many.
The second amendment rights forces captured the land by dumping hundreds of millions of guns into an American society which was only moderately armed 50 years ago and gun deaths were far less frequent. And we better off for their work on the behalf of liberty and a constitutional one liner? I don't happen to think so but I do know who owns the outcome.