I think making drug use less criminal, while legalizing drug possession and sale, and introducing the extensive use of drug and alcohol courts would go a long way toward making our society a better place to live. The Gun Problem Twelve year old children shooting their classmates. Husbands and wives shooting each other. Shootings on the drug corners of urban neighborhoods. All are symptoms of too many guns.
Guns are just to easy to get hold of.
However that is not to say that guns can't be taxed. This alone would go a long way to reduce the number of guns on the street. And to reduce the supply of guns even further I would make the tax partially refundable. No questions asked. If ia gun is not locked down so thoroughly that it can't be stolen and turned in for cash.