Okay interesting reply from freediver. Listing the points as such:
1) legally acquiring guns being used to commit crimes by those with intent. There is no way to stop this unless you are willing to dis arm the entire population and establish a control system that is completely impartial. This is not possible due to human nature. History, both modern and ancient provides massive amounts of evidence of this. So the issue than becomes how teach values of self, community and others that you reduce the incidence of this happening. these issues are not limited to guns nor gun owners and a multi lingual search of the international news shows the weapons range from hand tools, knives, axes, swords, homemade explosives, and poisons. This is not a complete list. the issue at that point is not the gun but the intent of the person who gets it.
2) Considering the amount of "crimes" that are being elevated to felony status and that it has been used by government to deny non violent persons a right to self defense makes this point a dangerous slope at best. I will admit that I favor the social and legal framework of the ancient Greek Patriarch Dracos; who made quite sure that the punishment was much worse than any benefit from a crime. the other issue with this is the blackmarket and modern micro industrial ability that makes the ability to produce weapons of many different types rather easy to do. Again, creating more law without properly enforcing the law that exists is a burden on those who are not criminals, while doing nothing to actually insure a reduction in criminal behavior. please don't try to use the UK or Europe as I live here and I know first hand the amount of creative statistics that is done with crime figures in the UK and many places in Europe.
3) Considering the amount of firearms a person owns to be an issue is another way of stating the state has the right to limit what you as a person has or the right to own it. that is a communist or hard-line Feudal mentality. Are you sure that you can support that? What happens when the worm turns and you are no longer part of special group? History has shown that happen more times than I care to point out.
4) Now here is a point I can agree with. Why where the crimes that these weapons where involved or the very crime of them being stolen NOT fully tracked down and properly closed by the PUBLICLY funded Police or law enforcement? I hope that none of those weapons where classified as having been destroyed but I would bet that some of them had. being former military law enforcement and having worked with law enforcement in different ways during my life, I know there is and issue there. How to deal with it is another matter completely.
5) Tracking firearms is a joke at best. any means that you want to track them can and has been proven to be able to be defeated. Here in the Uk it has gone so far in stupidity that they are wanting to ban kitchen knives and require everyone that wants to have a kitchen knife greater than 2" (50mm) in length of blade be required to go through training every two to three years and still have to go through background checks and the like. The same type of background checks that have allowed over 50 convicted child molesters to vanish off the "required" registry rolls and five of them get caught re-offending. The US system is no better and given what the head of the FBI has stated concerning the current forced immigration into the US; it has no chance of ever being efficient enough to truly be a safety net for the public.
You are stating that all gun owner are to be experts in firearms in order to own a gun. Okay do you intend to demand the same for owners of cars? Cooking knives or cooking equipment per chance? I don't understand this expectation as see it's base. Please without any of the ad hominem type statement, flesh out your reasoning here. I was not an expert when I start handling firearms (10 yrs old) nor do I really consider myself one now even though I know proper safety and have worked with everything from a a .22 up to and including the main gun of a M60A3 MBT. I am currently working on my advance radio permit and will still have much to learn after getting that ticket even though it gives me full privileges in the UK and to a limited extent many other places and the ability to teach as well. I hold a Doctorate and while I know a huge amount in my field (chiropractic with advance studies in sports medicine) and am consulted by professional for their care; there is still much I need to learn and continuing studying that I must do. So please what do you mean by expert and at what level of knowledge do you consider it to be safe or functional.
Being pro-active can be a very good thing and tempered with discernment and respect for the rights and responsibilities of each person can help lead groups towards very positive goals. The other side of that which must be guarded against for it is dangerous at best; is the wanting to do good and ending up violating the very rights and integrity of other persons. It is difficult position to place oneself in. Be careful how you frame the need for pro-active; as you may place yourself by rationalization of a view or ideology in a camp you would normally find utterly repugnant.
I thank you for actually answering this question of mine. I hope you see some information that might help you understand that the issue is not about guns when it comes to death and murder, it is about teaching value of life and respect of self. The solution to that are another discussion and much longer and detailed in nature and not everyone agrees on those either.
Michael