I don’t think there should be wars in general. I think the old adage of “if you make guns illegal only criminals would have guns” is vacuously true and entirely

I don’t think there should be wars in general. I think the old adage of “if you make guns illegal only criminals would have guns” is vacuously true and entirely the point. You can then arrest them for owning a gun rather than waiting for them to commit a crime with that gun. Practically speaking I think this is unlikely to be possible in the US. Banning guns would be a dead letter law. Guns are so widely owned and pervasive it would be impossible to implement. I expect law enforcement won’t want to get involved either due to how dangerous disarming an entire populace would be.