Sure, there is gun control that works,.....
They have total gun control in PRISON! But I don't think it is a very safe place to be, despite the fact that there is total control of guns there.
It is people that cause the problems, not the tools they choose to do it with. Wonder if there were ever any problems with murder, rape, and robbery when we used swords, knives, and clubs? I think there were.
Gun control laws are prior restraint. They assume you are guilty (of something), and need you to prove your innocence to the state, before they will grant you the privilege of being able to legally purchase a firearm, or to carry one in public.
Some have mentioned that gun locks are "gun control that works", but even they are usually against the mandatory use of locks. Personally, I find the whole idea of gun locks (trigger locks especially) worse than useless, and potentially dangerous. What kind of an idiot (and I know there are many kinds) would put a trigger lock on a loaded gun? The whole argument about how long it takes to disengage the lock when your life is threatened is needless, and should never take place. Because no loaded gun should be locked! Ever!!! If a gun is loaded, it should be under your direct personal control, period! And when not under your direct personal control, it should not be loaded!!! How much simpler could it be? Take away the ammo, and the gun is harmless (except as an impact weapon, and a baseball bat, golf club, or hockey stick are more efficient and effective for that).
Control the ammo, certainly. Lockable storage to ensure no one can get it but you, quite fine. Lock up loaded guns? Idiocy!
Gun control laws are not about controlling crime, or even about controlling guns, they are about controlling people, in what they might possess, because of the fear of what they might do. And one of the things politicians fear most about what people might do with their own guns is fight back. Possibly even to the point of threatening the power, or even the physical safety of the politicians.
The difference between a Holocaust and a guerrilla war is the will of those involved, and the tools used. No other nation in the history of the world but ours has had a law like the Second Amendment. One that operates at the highest levels of government, and prohibits government from legally disarming the public as a body, or as individuals. The Second Amendment gives us the legal limit to say, "This far, and no further!", and it ensures the physical tools necessary to enforce that action, when we deem it necessary.
And, yes, if strictly interpreted and enforced, there would be no "gun control" laws on the books. That it hasn't been in the past century or so is the fault of the people, not the government. That's right, us. WE. As in WE the people. Our nation was founded on, and our government set up to operate as an entity that was responsible to the people. That it is no longer that, is no one's fault but ours. The principle is that the voting citizens of this country ARE the government, and the people in government are merely managers hired (elected) by us to manage the day to day operation. They serve are our pleasure and convenience. Trouble is, too many of them who do get hired (elected) think the opposite is correct. They know better than we do. It doesn't matter what the subject, their ideas are more important than ours (unless, they happen to agree). We have been electing "leaders" for too long, and that has gotten us where we are today. Instead of electing managers, representatives, and "servants" (people serve in government), we have been convinced/led/taught/duped/etc.,etc. into electing leaders. And as much as anything, that is where we have gone wrong. Instead of the people making the decisions and having them carried out, the only decision we make anymore is which liars (sorry, meant to say politicians) get to promote their agendas, until the next election. Sure, they listen to the polls, somewhat, and they have to listen to the polls in November, but most of it is smoke and mirrors, like a magician's stage trick, so that we wind up "choosing" what they intended for us all along, and believing that we have done so of our own free will.
That is what gun control is, a "reasonable" measure. The political equivalent of a serial killer telling you that the handcuffs are only a precaution, to keep you from hurting yourself. It doesn't work. It doesn't stop anyone willing to break the law. No law does. And people willing to obey the laws don't need gun control, other than using both hands and a steady trigger squeeze!