I appreciate your presenting your point of view in a reasonable fashion, while disagreeing with the underlying premise.
If cars are on your own property and you want to drive them no licensing and government thugs apply, are you willing to
leave people alone if they want to stroke their gun on their own property ?
I haven't got a problem with guns at all. I got my own firearm at 14 or 15 or something, I don't have one now but that's because I don't have a use for one.
Nearly all my friends have firearms as I live in a rural state and hunting/fishing/target shooting are large sports.. We didn't ban guns here in Australia. We introduced mandatory federal laws and licensing (states follow a federal guideline and have some leeway to suit). There is a big difference between that and banning guns.
Lets face it. Guns can kill/maim allot people very fast and EASILY. A child can use them.....
But what we did worked here. We had about 10 mass shooting in a short period of time. The conservative party introduced federal gun laws in about 1996 after the worlds largest mass shooting at the time happened in my little state. The Port Arthur massacre its called- goggle it. We haven't had a mass shooting ever since. I'm not saying we wont get another because of cause we will. But the laws did work. Irrefutable proof.
Want to hunt? No problem, pass the back ground check and do the cause and test and you have a licence. Want to purchase a gun? No problem buy the gun safe, have it inspected and go and purchase the weapons that you need and your licence is for.
Want to sit in in your armchair stroking and pointing your 45 at the TV screen whist in your underwear? Ummm NO.
Its a win/ win.