"So short of society crumbling...there is no number of gun deaths that you'd deem too many to re-examine the laws in the nation?"
Shooting people is already usually against the law. What part of "criminals don't obey the law" are you having trouble understanding?
Law abiding citizens have the right to keep and bear arms. That is the law. You're just going to have to learn to live with it.
And to the tens of thousands who the criminals kill...all you can offer is "tough shit"?
Do you think we all guns were banned that criminals wouldn't get their hands on them regardless? How did that work with alcohol again?
The more guns you make illegal you'll be doing two major things:
A) Disarming law-abiding citizens (criminals by definition don't follow the law)
B) Giving more power and money to organized crime. The last thing the drug cartels want is for the drugs they sell is to be made legal. Just like how the mob came to power during prohibition
Basically are you saying that you're naive enough that if guns were banned that criminals would give theirs up, or they wouldn't buy them again?