You heard mine. Before we can even think to take away what give people the feeling of security, we need to replace it with something else.
After every shooting the buying of weapons goes up, in particular in whatever the group got shoot up this week.
And it will be impossible to get people to give up their weapons if you tell people that the police (what should give you the feeling of security) is not going to protect you or even worse "is out there to hunt you down" like we have seen during BLM.
The Antigun people need to be pro-police and increase the trust in the system BEFORE they can even attempt to de-arm the population, but they flip flop on the only counterweight to personal weaponry, the need of personal protection.
On the other side sites your weapon lobby that no matter what says "People need to be able to protect themselves."
You said: "I'm not anti gun, but you don't need to be a second amendment abolitionist to see how f**ked up America's relationship with guns is."
I am antigun, but I see how idiotic the it would be to de-arm your population as long as the multiheaded hydra of inclusion talks about bitting of its own heads.
TL;DR fix your fearmongering USA (every party) then weapon laws become simple.