The very premise enshrined in the second amendment ”a well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, " is demonstrably untrue. The days when a militia could defend us from a foreign adversary are long gone, if they ever existed at all. The statistics about gun violence show they fail to protect us from domestic adversaries.
That said, confiscation wouldn't work. We need to make guns rarer, not drive them underground. We need to make gun ownership be seen as a responsibility. We don't need to repeal the second amendment to do that. Besides, getting rid of the second amendment would do nothing about our culture of gun violence, which is why the various amendments here that attempt social engineering earn my contempt. You'd think we'd have learned from the lesson of the eighteenth amendment.
I'm in general agreement with you, but how do you feel about those on the right that seem to completely disregard the prefatory clause of the 2nd Amendment? All you ever hear from that is what comes after it. I think that's an absurd interpretation. Whether or not someone agrees with the NRA point-of-view, I think disregarding the actual text disqualifies you from participating in the debate.
I'm not interested in mass gun confiscation or taking guns away from rational hunters and those that want a handgun to protect their person/home. Those people are not the problem. They exist across the industrialized world without issue. What separates us from the rest of the world on guns? I think it's the notion that it's an absolute right without responsibility, general gun culture/fetishization, and the inability of our government leaders to effect even general and common sense change.
It'd be funny if it weren't so sad, but many social conservatives blame gun violence on TV and video games. That'd be something were it not for the fact that both of those exist across the modern industrialized world and yet no other country has a problem with gun violence like this one. It's almost like the independent variable is the ability to control and regulate guns and other weaponry.