But if they’re harder to get, fewer will have them. You can very much get an illegal firearm in Australia or the UK if you really want, but firearms crimes are significantly less because they’re not readily available.

I don’t think we (Canada or anybody) should necessarily ban guns, but I don’t think the US should have the 2nd amendment (as it’s now interpreted anyways) either.

Unfortunately because I wish there were no guns at all. But I’m a pragmatist. I know gun ownership will never go away in the U.S. so I own guns as well.

You can’t compare Australia to the U.S. on many levels.

Australia is less than 10% the population of the U.S. Its easy to get to the majority of 20 million people to agree to something. It’s impossible when you have over 300 million. And the U.S. has a wide history of different states with different attitudes.

Also gun laws are codified in the constitution in the U.S. that’s not the same way in every other country in the world. I wish I could remember who said it, but to paraphrase, Constitutional rights are God-given rights as viewed by Americans. Every other country has government-given rights which can be taken away whenever the government wants. That’s not the case in the U.S. and why it’s so much more entrenched and impossible to get rid of.

The "well-regulated" nonsense is long-settled jurisprudence.

There is no legal right to gun ownership in Australia.

For purposes of repealing or altering the Second Amendment, yes, the Constitution is effectively immutable.

But of course anyone is welcome to attempt to get a majority of state legislatures onboard to ratify a new amendment.

Analogous terms are encoded into most state constitutions - probably have to knock those pesky provisions out as well.