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Focusing on the money makes a lot of sense to me. If we are honest with ourselves about the monetary incentives at work here, the whole discussion gets more realistic.
I'm also reminded of the historical conversation having to do with the 13th amendment: In one swoop of the pen, a vast sum of money was wiped off the books, the value of all that property which was now nullified.
I don't have a lot of ideas on how to make guns less profitable- unlike drugs, their high value has less to do with their legal status. But I don't think the gun lobby has got the nation's best interests in mind.
The 13th amendment didn't obveously destroy any value; it just transfered value from slaveowners to slaves.
Nor does this discussion have anything to do with incentives or profits. I'm just trying to quantify the value of the existing gun stock.