Repealing the 2nd Amendment

If you believe that repealing the 2nd Amendment will put an end to deaths from firearms, then I believe that you have failed to take a lesson from history.

During the late 1800s and early 1900s, temperance societies encouraged people to voluntarily abstain from alcohol.  Since that wasn't working, they began to work for liquor laws to force people into abstinance.

In 1919, we the people ratified the 18th Amendment.

Instead of eliminating alcohol, it merely moved it underground.  Instead of bringing a better society and improving the lives of the people, it led to increased crime with even more violence than had occurred before.  It also led to widespread corruption & graft among politicians and the police as well as contributing to (even nurturing!) the growth of organized crime.

In 1933, we the people woke up to the fact that prohibiting alcohol was counter-productive.  And we repealed the 18th Amendment, ratifying the 21st Amendment.

Many scholars, researchers, and average citizens believe that to criminalize something we the people want to do merely strengthens organized crime and increases the opportunities for violence, graft, corruption, etc. 

If they are right, what will happen if we the people decide to criminalize the possession of firearms by our citizenry?

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"
George Santayana (1863-1952). U.S. philosopher, poet.
Life of Reason, "Reason in Common Sense," ch. 12 (1905-6).
William L. Shirer used this quote as an epigraph in his The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1959).