Voters in Texas should care enough about our law enforcement officers and the safety of our homes and neighborhoods to pass a state law requiring something as sensible and enforceable as background checks for gun purchasers at gun shows. This would mean that Texas would no longer tolerate allowing anyone - even those prohibited by federal law from purchasing guns - to buy guns at gun shows with "no questions asked." Maybe Texans should take the protection of their borders more seriously. Stopping gangs from getting guns at gunshows, if that is even where they are currently likely to get them, wont stop them from getting guns in the slightest. Note how they bring drugs in from Mexico illegally? Well they can do the same with guns. What a surprise.
In fact if all guns are declared illegal and confiscated in the USA, they could make a great deal of money smuggling machine guns, grenades, bombs, just about anything you can think of..
Plus they'd create violent individuals out of people who had been merely concerned about government excess before such a policy.
I can guarantee that a successful gun ban/confiscation plan will create violent individuals out of people who are not, now.