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You know this is comical. Its like when Biden says something like, "what are you going to do about nukes." You can't fricken drone strike a single family house (let alone a single person's apartment) without causing mass collateral damage. Plus, the fact is you can't just siege Joe in 1F until he shits himself to death when there are 10000 Joes, nor can you snipe him when he leaves 1F without eviscerating all the other civil rights that exist. You'd be treating suspected gun owners worse than indicted criminals skipping bond.
All, in the end, probably for little benefit. Ask thyself, would the average gun control advocate accept this compromise (assuming it was ironclad): You get 10 years of doing your thing. But, if in year 10 the homicide rate of America is greater than any of Germany, England, or France all gun control laws enacted since 1900 are repealed permanently. Would they accept? Of course not. Nor for 20 or 25 years. Probably not even 50. This would all be rational, even though most of them would be dead, or nearly so at T=50. Because they would lose that bet. I mean, unless they engaged in a massive genocide program and somehow managed to gerrymander that to not be included in homicide.
Of course you can. Single family detached is easy. An apartment, maybe you're using a robot of some sort instead of a drone, but more likely police in riot gear. There aren't going to be 10,000 Joes; once you make an example over the first one, the rest will snap into line. Remember all the protests on Joe Biden's inauguration day? Of course not, because the government made its point on January 6.
(And the gun control advocates would totally take the deal. Then they'd welch. What are you going to do about it?)
Well obviously, but space aliens or something. The point is they don't even truly believe it will work.
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when someone says "you can't do x," they don't typically mean it's impossible for it to be done, but that doing it would cross some sort of line which would turn off people and cause more damage than what is gained through the use of huge violence
it's theoretically possible for the state to nuke a city if a gang takes over a city block, but so what?
to get around this issue, you simply assert something is possible and assert a prediction confidently, but confident predictions aren't arguments and they're not convincing anyway
bombing a city block because of MOVE didn't result in the disappearance of gang violence, it resulted in the philly PD stopping enforcement
There's no line. People will accept anything as long as the authorities doing it, with the connivance of the press, confidently declare themselves the good guys.
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