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I understand, I think.
While I disagree with your position, I certainly respect its internal consistency. I'm amazed at your position though, because it is contrary to our current legal system and is so far removed from my own ideas on the matter. I think that some weapons are so powerful, they shouldn't be placed into the hands of the general public. Even Wolf agrees that WMDs, for example, shouldn't be available to the general public. My basic point is that the government should draw a line banning some weapons. Reasonable people may disagree where that line belongs, but I think there should be a line.
To address your other point. I will concede that if the government bans guns (which is unlikely), only the law abiding citizens will turn over their guns. Yes, there will be guns in the hands of criminals for some time, but they will gradually be phased out as the guns get old and stop working and as criminals are captured and guns are confiscated. You don't see tommy guns being used for crime any longer. The same would eventually be true of today's guns. I have no idea what that phase-out period would look like. It might be messy, since the criminals would have the guns and the law abiding citizens would not. But, I imagine it would look like the times we currently live in, since most armed robberies, etc. are currently committed against unarmed people.
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