A certain segment of the population believes might make right and guns are the ultimate might. No amount of law is going to change that as the US has always had more gun crime than other countries even before those countries banned their guns.
Oh boy, one of these
It has nothing to do with the tool. Ban guns, and evil intent will still find a way. Ask jolly ole England how their knife violence and murders have skyrocketed.
Nice job being led by emotional statistics that include all gun deaths.
Let's remove suicide out of the "gun deaths" and we're actually lower per-capita of actual gun murder than most countries.
Let's take a step further and also talk about how MOST of the gun deaths in the US happen in the most RESTRICTIVE areas and cities. Chicago, NY, LA, and NO (virtual outright bans) contribute to most of those gun deaths. 4 cities with the MOST RESTRICTIVE gun laws. And ummm... "Gun free zones" like schools? "Buh-but... We had a sign that said "gun free zone" and a law to back it up! "
Seeing a trend?
Novel idea here, but criminals DON'T obey law.
It's what makes them... Ummm.... Criminals.
No amount of legislation and law is going to stop criminals. All it does is neuter law-abiding citizens from the ability to protect themselves from those criminals.
Outside of outright criminals you have kids like the one in this OP that are a product of culture. A fatherless culture that has glorified violence for the last 4 decades thru music and pop culture
You stick this kid in the country and raise him to respect life and with a healthy respect for firearms, and this is a non-issue. No headlines here.
Guaranteed.
But go on with your crusade against "Muh evil gunzzz".
And then turn your attention to cars. Because those are the single greatest killers in this country. We gonna ban cars?
No?
I didn't think so.