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They could have kept her locked up forever fairly easily.The point of them reasoning with Mystique instead of just capturing and imprisoning her is that they couldn't just keep her couped up forever. She's Mystique - she's going to get out and continue on with her quest at some point or another.
They had to let her make the decision not to kill for herself while trying to appeal to her emotionally. Of course, Professor X could have just mind wiped her but than that goes against everything he was suppose to learn about himself in the movie so.
Xavier could have mind-****ed her.
Magneto could have just killed her.
Her actions cause the obliteration of Earth as we know it. Why take the risk? Because that was the plot. In the real world Quicksilver could shut her down, they'd lock her up, explain the consequence of her actions on the future and then work from there.
But that wasn't the arc they wanted for the characters. Now would it have made for an interesting movie.