What you're saying is pretty reasonable. No one likes paying taxes and gun buy back programs are what got rid of guns in other countries. The problem is the NRA. I'll call it the Gribble Paradox. Dale Gribble is a paranoid right wing nut job on King of the Hill but he's a card carrying member of a Washington lobbying group. He wears a Derringer on his ankle. The NRA is seen as a national gun club when they're an extremist lobbyist group peddling fear to their rank and file so we can't even make it illegal to sell guns in a glorified yard sale. I think of Dale Gribble because I seem to remember an episode where someone reminds him that the NRA are lobbyists and he recoils in terror, but really the average NRA member with an AR-15 thinks he's defending the constitution instead of donating whatever the dues are to some jerk offs who are a vastly more powerful version of the Texas Cattleman's Association except with a penchant towards dangerous weapons instead of steak.

And I wanted to say this to someone in another thread who was claiming you shouldn't assume every gun owner is a criminal: if you're the government you damn well better because they don't have the power to befriend every kindly kalashnikov replica enthusiast on an individual level to assure their level of sanity to the general public. Think of it this way, if you're walking in busy downtown traffic you assume everyone in a car is going to kill you if you make a mistake. If you have the power to regulate a weapon that can kill 130 people in one night you assume everyone is going to kill 130 people in one night if you make a mistake.