2nd Ammendment Rights: Should Guns Be Banned?

[Justin 188]

Originally posted by srawls

Also, don't forget using guns for sport (w/o killing!). Indeed, archery, swordsmenship, karate ... all these are concerned with "injuring and killing" but they have a sport aspect as well. Should we ban them also?

No, those are also different, just like motor vehicles. Lemme try to summarize what I'm trying to say:

Reasons to ban guns:
1) they are commonly used as devices for killing, unlike swords, bows, pencils, junk food, etc.

2) of all the commonly used devices to hurt others, guns are the most lethal (the others including baseball bats, knives, etc)

2) when people kill others with guns, it's generally not an accident. Vehicle-related deaths, or death by electrocution, etc, are mostly accidents, results of poor technique/negligence.

3) aside from law enforcement, society doesn't require guns to function - this is shown in other countries where firearms are banned.

And just as a sidenote, when I made previous references to Canada, I wasn't trying to say that Canada is "better" or whatever than the US. Just making comparisons to support my points - in case anybody was offended, or felt that I was being obnoxiously patriotic.