Come on StonedCatz be honest with yourself. Do you seriously thing that the 23 school shooters would have done it with rocks or poison? Even with a knife?
Guns makes a man feel super strong, it is easy to use. You don't need to touch or get very close to your victim. You just aim and shoot.
No guns does not mean no crime. Its means much less crimes, much less accidents, much less dramas and close to zero mass shooting.
Concerning the "protection" that those guns provide to the US:
- Iraq War (2003-2010) 4,491 US soldiers deaths. Around 640 deaths a year
- Vietnam War (1955-1975) 58,318 US soldiers deaths. Around 3070 deaths a year
- World War 2 (1941-1945) 407,316 US soldiers deaths. Around 101,829 deaths a year
- US in 2016, 11,004 only gun homicides
- US in 2014, 8,124 only gun homicides
- US in 2010, 8,775 only gun homicides
- US in 2001, 8,890 only gun homicides
- France in 2016, 862 not only guns homicides (equivalent of 4318 for the US population)
So in 2016 you got the gun casualties the equivalent to
- 17 Irak war years
- 3.6 Vietnam war years
- 10% WW2 years
- 2.5 french homicides year
Guns are not making you safer, your kids are scared to go to school, your teenagers ask for a change.
Give them a chance, you , your government and all the us citizen