My argument is that guns are not the ones pulling the trigger.
Good luck changing people and human nature. It's best if there are no triggers to pull in the majority of situations.
Pretty much every single person I know owns a gun. If it was truly a gun problem why are we not shooting each other.
People are shooting each other. That's why people are mad. Good job on not shooting your acquaintances.
It's a systematic problem. My point is also that a good chunk of shootings are from illegally owned firearms. How does taking away the rights of law abiding citizens help solve illegal firearm shootings? It doesn't.
I've stated this before and it isn't really part of my argument today since i'm only really attempting to establish that our country minus all our guns (especially the illegal ones) would be a safer country. However, since you've brought it up, just because people procure illegal fire arms now isn't a good defense for no gun control. If a ban could be accomplished and law abiding citizens turned in their guns like the good citizens that they are:
1.) Police and citizens alike know that anybody with a gun is now a criminal. Go get em. they're gonna get got.
2.) after the illegal gun owner crackdown, guns would be a lot harder to obtain illegally. The supply just isn't there. Ask your average prospective Japanese criminal how and if they could get a gun.
As far as taking guns completely away, all you have to do is look at human kind since creation. We have been killing each other since day one over petty ********. Hell not too long ago the twin towers burned, and before that we nuked an entire city. Its absolutely naive to think humans have evolved enough to not cause something catastrophic.
Does that mean I'm paranoid? No. But my guns sitting in a locked up safe are hurting nobody. Hell I see people in this very forum call Trump Hitler. Not on my watch if that's true...
You're right, there is a subset of the population that is prone to violence. Wouldn't it be best if their access to lethal means was lessened?
Also, You're ignoring the rest of the world again. The United States doesn't exist in a vacuum. You should go live abroad for an extended period and see
1.) If you have what it takes to adapt to a new culture.
2.) Get out of your ethnocentric mindset and see that there are other ways of living that may or may not be better than the way we insist on living in this country.