When one looks back to the past, it always seems that at the time people always think that what they are experiencing is the worse civil unrest, or criminal behavior that ever happened, an that things were never as bad.
If you go back to the 60's -70's or before that to the 30's and 40's, Pre war, or the 1700's or 1800's we have always had times in our history, when we were tested. This is just one of those times. About every 20 years, something shakes society, it may be different, but that doesn't make it unique.
If we go back to the Crusades, people were fighting for hundreds if not thousands of years over religious freedom.
It's just the latest form of a never ending battle, Which will probably go on as long as man lives.
Look at the Civil War, we couldn't even agree amongst ourselves on the issues at the time. Would we ever think that brother would kill brother? I believe it's in our predatory nature, and unless we evolve to a point where we breed that character out of humanity, it will continue to present itself until the end of time in one form or another.
Gun laws will never stick at this point in time, and unless the next President wants to start more civil disobedience than the is now, they probably know that.
By the time the next President takes office, the majority of the Country will have a firearm. It is very Naïve to think that they are all going to give them back to some authoritarian government. Just the attempt at enforcement would totally throw the country into chaos, and possibly start a second civil war, I just can't imagine Police or Military going house to house looking for guns, there simply aren't enough people to do this, or enough who agree with the policy, "should it occur".