Sorry Z, but I strongly disagree with your views. For the reasons stated above as well as for a very simple tenet of our own constitution which allows our citizenry the right to bear arms.

This right wasn't granted for hunters or gun collectors, but so that no one in this "new" society would ever again be put under governmental control simply because they were unarmed against a government that was.

While it is true that if guns were eliminated within our society there would be fewer guns for the criminals TO steal and use against us, it would just as surely NOT stop crimes against persons or their property still and would only drive up the prices criminals pay for their illegally owned weapons comparatively.

Here NO convicted felons have the right to own a firearm, not even as a hunting weapon, but it damned sure dudn stop 'em from gettin 'em anyway!

The bottomline that really derails your stance to me is that even before firearms were invented people STILL robbed and killed one another and game was still killed for food.

Weapons themselves are neither evil nor dangerous. Only Humans hold that distinction