&quot;...do you really think Americans would become more peaceful???&quot;<p>No, but they would probably become less deadly.<p>(But, without a gun, people might not be so emboldened as to physically attack someone at close range. Violence might go down.)<p>Around the time of one of the mass shootings in the past 5 years, my conservative relatives were posting on facebook a story about a mass-stabbing. They asked rhetorically, &quot;Why aren&#x27;t we calling for a ban on knives?&quot; Well, the question sort of answered itself-- no one had died from the attacks.