The society will be far less violent and the government will respect individual rights. The introduction of bills in Congress that call for the prohibition of all firearms or ammunition sales to private individuals would be laughed off the floor, and anti-gunners, such as Sarah Brady or Barbara Streisand, would not be given the time of day by either the press, the government, or the people themselves. Beyond the modicum of gun control that would naturally exist to keep weapons of mass destruction out of private hands, I do not believe that there even would be consideration of the massive regulations and restrictions we are now faced with today. Simply put, gun control in a rational society would not be the moral issue that it is today. It would not exemplify another encroachment upon the shrinking respect for rights that this topic represents today.
Gun control is clearly an issue that requires a rational legal philosophy.
This is not an issue that is self-evident simply given a rational moral and political philosophy. I believe that these questions would be considered, and rightly so. It is the function of the government to define the legal conditions for when self-defense can be invoked as a sanction of the private use of force, as well as to ensure that weapons are not obtained by criminals. In this vein, I think both registration and background checks would be legitimate laws in a rational, free society. Thus, I am not inclined to support this proposal even in a free society.