[Stuart]

As I (and other people) have said, if a person gets in a situation where they need to defend themselves (say intruders in the house), that situation would be extremely tense. If they then introduce a gun into the situation, somebody is going to get shot.

That person may be the cirminal (intruder, attacker etc) or an innocent victim. If the criminal knows (or assumes) the other person is carrying a gun, he will carry one too.

Now, punky, imagine the situation. You are asleep at home with your family. You hear a noise. You get your gun, go downstairs and see a man walking out with your Video.

In the mean time, your family has woken up and has come to see what is happening. You warn the burgler, he ignores you, so you pull out your gun. His accomplice (who has been wandering around looking for valuables) walks back in the room, sees the gun and pulls out another gun.

In the ensuing choas, you each fire a shot. One bullet hits the wall, and one hits a member of your family (any member, even a pet). You don't know which hit what. How do you feel? Regardless of whether your bullet hit them or not, a bullet has, and, at the very least they will be in a awful lot of pain.

The other problem is, as I have stated earlier, where guns are not controlled, they are more freely available to criminals, who are more likely to use them.


I do agree that that are millions of objects that we all use that could kill. The problem is that if used correctly, these objects are not deisgned to kill (to use your cars example, generally to kill someone with a car you have to crash it or knock them over, cars are not designed to do this). Guns are (generally ) designed to kill or inure.