Practicality
Nice choice of words, LOL! "well I would have shot her, your honor, however it was impractical because it took an extra day to buy a gun!"
Now murder has to be convenient.
I get your point though, just having some fun.
In Canada "Our service standards to process a complete and accurate application are 45 days, including the 28-day legislated waiting period, for a licence application, and 30 days for a registration application."
FORTY FIVE DAYS!! Not just next day service being an inconvenience.
One can get po'd with his wife and have her dead and buried the next day. That's not a waiting period at all, not exactly time to cool down and let issue pass by.
As for having millions of guns, you are right, there's no possible way that the US could remove all guns...simply impossible.
However, if you have to wait 45 days, FEWER people would own them legally; fewer people from whom the guns would be stolen, found by children etc. They just wouldn't bother with them because it's an inconvenience and people are just incredibly lazy these days. living in a world of instantaneous everything, people have become used to not waiting for anything, therefore getting a gun would be a pain in the butt and only those who were serious about hunting, sport etc would own them.
Gangs and street guns will always be there, no possible way to stop that. The number of citizens running amok on killing sprees would go down though, and that's really what we are looking at these days, how to stop, slow down or make killing sprees inconvenient and therefore less frequent.
Is there a way to stop all killing and remove all guns? Nope, not a hope in hell so it's a moot point to consider at all. But what CAN be done to reduce these insane sprees?
Can kids buy guns on the street? Sure, you can in Canada too.
Are kids more apt to do so if there isn't one at home to steal? I highly doubt it. A gun at home is like a carrot being dangled in front of the donkey cart. "If I could get my hands on it, it would be so cool, I could make my stand, I could be known as I go down in flames, I would be somebody and nobody would ever f**k with me again, dead or not.
That same mindset driving a kid to go and buy a gun on the street wouldn't be as easy to execute and would probably just stifle over time.
Easier access to guns, makes USING guns easier too.
