December 20, 2021
It would be a good thing if the Second Amendment to the Constitution was repealed, but the outcome is unpredictable. (It should be noted that the United States is worse than Third World countries; those countries at least make ownership of guns illegal.) It could certainly happen that the U.S. would descend into a civil war, but it would be far worse than the civil war of the 1860s. At that time the population of the U.S. was only a few million; now it is 330 million, and the technology of weaponry is far more developed and lethal than it was in the 1860s.
The results of this civil war would also have a global effect, since the U.S. still seeks hegemony in the world. China might be able to save us from total Armageddon. China in its long history has been through the struggle between cooperation and competition, and reflected deeply on the subject (as demonstrated in Lin Yutang’s book, “The Wisdom of China and India”).
So the future is unpredictable. But as Murphy’s law says: “Whatever can happen will happen,” and that applies to both the bad and the good. We can hope the good will eventually gain over the bad, and there will be a drift towards the good in the genes of human beings.