You just changed the goal post from stopping criminals and crazies access to guns to over throwing government!
Stopping criminals and crazies access to guns doesn't stop the criminals and crazies.
The overthrowing government point is valid IMO.
Take a look at Japan, Canada and even the U.K. where people can own guns but they have checks in place where the crazy people don’t get hold of them. You don’t see any massacres happening there do you?? So it proves that with a few controls in place, things can become much more safer.
I don't believe that proves that things can become "safer" if I may say so.
Your premise is assuming that there are people out there who want to commit massacres right now, but they are only halted because of the restrictions around weapons.
It certainly is a good thing if such people are being hindered, by any means possible, from acquiring assault weapons, but then isn't it just a matter of time before said person finds a weapon he's happy with?
I mean your premise must adhere to very strict set of requirements here, it requires that the killer wants a specific weapon and will not do any harm until he gets hold of
that particular weapon and thus you feel safe, but you are still among that person, he just doesn't have a gun. We can react to this by relinquishing physical items which attackers may want, we could even ban every single thing we could possibly ban, we will end up relinquishing every single liberty we once held dear, just to end our fears. But such bans will never be able to stop the true
cause of theses atrocities. I'm not saying you said we should rely solely on restrictions, but this is why we cannot rely on restrictions alone: we will all be confined to chicken coops before we can end evil with simple bannage.
I think it's too late now and that is where society is headed, a complete police state with zero freedoms and 100% solitary-electronic-work and socialisation, because this sort of constant threat has become ingrained into society, and thus into people's psyches, and that is the only way society will finally feel safe if we continue on our current heading.
Personally, I would not feel safe if I had to believe that the UK doesn't have psycho massacres just because guns are illegal. I believe the UK doesn't have psycho massacres because no psycho in this country has rationalised a train of thought to such an atrocity,
yet. And that is a big yet. The way things are going with psychological associations in the media, everyone is being fed way too much propaganda and things like associative thoughts, and such a train of thought has the possibility of falling in place for maybe just a few people out there.