Originally Posted By: MarioD
To those whom believe that banning guns will eliminate the problem you should be very happy that there are no illegal drugs in our country. After all illegal drugs have been banned for decades.


Spot on, Mario.

Cars do not drive themselves into crowds. People who choose to do that kill.
Bad food does not make you fat. You choosing to eat it makes you fat.
Pencils do not misspell words. People using pencils misspell words.
Guns themselves do not kill. People choosing to kill with them kill.

Here we are at just after noon on Tuesday, and none of my guns have killed anybody. Ever. They can't load themselves. They can't pull their own trigger. I would have to do that. I would have to make a conscious choice to do that.

Banning guns would only take guns from people who obtain them legally. Do you really believe that banning legal gun sales would make the criminals suddenly say "Well, they don't have a gun anymore. I guess it's time to fight fair and have a fistfight and if I win I can rob them." England has banned guns. Watch any video of the English police trying to disarm a guy with a knife. They run away. THE POLICE RUN AWAY! Police are supposed to take charge, not cover. But hey, if you take guns away from everybody, it follows that you would take them from the police too. Then the Neanderthal "survival of the fittest" comes back into play and society will have regressed millions of years to whoever wields the biggest club rules.