[Anonymous]

Guns and their ammunition should be illegal in all but the hands of law enforcement agencies and the military. "Simple as that."

To compromise your entire nation's security just because you want to be a jackass and go traipsing in the woods to gun down water buffalo with a semi-automatic is worse than being immature, it's a fatal error of judgement and a fundamental issue with this country.

It's the same attitude the country has with nuclear weapons; We're not willing to lead by example. Japan and England haven't had firearms for a long time and they're safer nations because of it - In 1996, handguns were used to murder 15 people in Japan, 30 in Great Britain, and 9,390 in the United States, and this statistic has done nothing but worsen with time. If we were to have a firearms prohibition, the first few years would be a little rougher on the victims of violent crimes and armed robbery (assuming these people were somehow able to defend themselves with a firearm in the past, i.e. VERY few cases), but if the police force was increased to a reasonable number, it'd even out over a decade or so and serve to make this nation a lot less violent in the future.

You don't NEED to hunt. You don't NEED to defend yourself in a shootout at the O.K. corral. If someone wants to end your career with a gun - unless you have your defense surgically attached to your palm or the oracle warned you about it earlier in the day - there is fuck all you're gonna be able to do about it.