What kind of incentive do you think could be offered to gun owners so they would be willing to turn in their guns?

Hi Harry! Haven't seen you for a while. 

Hi Kitti!  I've missed you and a lot of people here.  I've taken a break for a while.  I've been focusing on getting my house fixed up to put on the market in a month or so.  Hope you are doing well.

I am trying to do the same thing. It's time for a change.

LM, yes it is.  I'm trying to be optimistic about it.  Dealing with some anxiety over it.

Making changes is not easy when we get older.

Doin' fine. Nice to see you back.

Thanks Kitti.  It's still going to be hit or miss for me here but eventually, when I get myself settled, it should be easier.

Probably not unless some effective way to treat the withdrawal symptoms is discovered. 

That wouldn't be the truth.  Even if guns were completely outlawed we would simply have a very healthy black market for firearms.  We don't want that!!!   As long as we have zombie kids like Cruz this will happen.  These people will grow into adults and the rage will shift to whatever institution that they perceive to have not accepted him/her/it.  It may still be schools in some cases, so we should not be surprised when the shooters start including older people.  Society and parents created this problem by trying to crush the stable marriage and family, by embracing any technology that came along with no regard to how children might be hurt by it, and by allowing children to take heavy duty mental illness medications that have side effects of violence and suicide.  It really is not a mystery but we don't like the answer.    Sorry you got my rant today.  I just happened to be right here.  :) This post was edited by Thriftymaid at July 11, 2020 7:58 AM MDT

I don't disagree.  I wasn't intending to say this was a solution, just giving a literal answer to the question. It's just an incentive that might cause some people to think about whether they really want to keep their guns. 

Guns can always be turned in to the police if someone doesn't want them. Or they can be gifted to others.  There have been departments who paid for turned in guns........seems like I've heard of $100 per gun regardless of what it was.  This was on the local news lately.  

Could just place them in treatment centers where they can deal with the symptoms of giving up their addiction to owning guns.

In America gun addiction might be a more serious problem than Australia so gun owners might nrequire  treatment for withdrawal symptoms.