U.S.A. should stop selling firearms and change the gun law. (continued)

"In the USA, guns are "socially accepted". Concealed carry is allowed in many states and many other states have open carry laws. One can go around in public with a assault rifle slung over his shoulder and it would be perfectly lega;. Furthermore most people do not even glance a second time at firearm carrying citizens. Like knives and forks, and pencils and papers, firearms have an important and accepted use in society. They can be used for self-defense and as a hobby. All because a law-abiding citizen owns a gun, it does not mean they are a murderer or would use it for crime. " I ask again, if no one in the world has guns, why the heck do you even need a gun to protect yourself? Also, to be able to carry guns around in the public doesn't instantly mean that its socially accepted if the government says so. Wouldn't YOU find it odd that a 6 year old is walking around with an AK? "There will always be a demand for firearms. If they are outlawed, criminals will still want them to carry out their crimes with. Drugs are illegal, and yet millions of people use them and they still get into the country despite a drug war that has cost billions of dollars and lasted over forty years. The demand for guns may not be as high as drugs, but the fact remains that there will be a demand for them and they will be smuggled in and used by criminals. In fact, you can see this in practice now. Automatic weapons are illegal, but many criminals still get their hands on automatic weapons and use them in crimes. By outlawing them, you are giving power to the criminals and taking away a law-abiding citizens right to defend him/herself using these weapons. " Why do the citizens need a gun for this then? Most of the crimes (bank robbery example) doesn't even target citizens. If you were as a citizen to pull out a gun while 3 armed robberies with automatic weapons are in front of you, wouldn't it make them shoot you? You could have gotten away by just cowering down on the ground. Also the fact that almost all citizens has a firearm makes it easier for criminals actually got your hands on one. They could just break in their homes on night and steal their gun for free. "Many people who own firearms do indeed use them for target practice as a hobby. A gun in the hands of a properly trained and experienced citizen is no more dangerous than a car on the road. Also, I've never heard of someone breaking their arm by firing a weapon. I've heard of wrists, but that only happens because the user fires a very large caliber weapon and does not know how to properly handle the recoil. Millions of firearm users fire their weapons every week and do no break their arms. " The fact that you could practice with your gun, means you could actually train yourself in using the gun to prepare for a crime in case a shootout breaks out. "Firearms are vital to the defense of democracy against government tyrant. Nazi Germany, The Soviet Union, and other authoritarian governments around the world outlawed their citizens from owning guns and then embarked on campaigns of discrimination and genocide against their own populace. Without firearms, citizens are unable to defend themselves against government tyranny and the government can do whatever it wants to the people with no effective resistance. A government would think twice about oppressing its own populace when it was armed. " Nazi Germany rised in power because of the huge amount of people who are workless and the high desire of food. The Nazi pinned those problems on the Jews and everybody believed him (Even you would've believed him at that time), no guns needed right? The Soviet Union tried to rebuild the economy and industrialize Russia. Why do you even need guns to protect from such ideas? At this time, if weird ideas comes from those groups like banning Jews from the country or something, there will always be democracy. "Firearms give protection to the individual citizen against criminals and could prevent massacres such as those seen at Virginia Tech. The police cannot be everywhere 100% of the time and they are not supermen who sense crime and magically teleport in to stop whatever crime is occurring. By owning a firearm, a women could defense herself against a rapist, a man could prevent himself from being mugged, and a man can defend his family against criminals. All it would have taken at a massacre such as Virginia Tech is one responsible citizen and the loss of life would have been significantly less. " I agree, the police aren't supermans, but with as big as America there SHOULD be alot of polices around. Also by owning a firearm, you are protected, BUT don't forget that the rapist or mugger can arm himself too with a firearm. Would you rather lose your life or just get mugged and let the police track the suspect down? The Virginia Tech Massacre is another example. Firearms are not allowed in school, yet he appeared with 2 pistols inside the school and manage to kill over 30 people. This is an example that the school didn't check good enough for the firearms possibilities. But even so, where did those 2 guns came from? The shop of course since they sell guns. Would there be such a shootout if no guns are sold? No, which I answer. You are completely right that the worst mass shooting appears in places where guns are allowed. But if you don't sell those guns, the mass shooting will lessen by alot. Hereby I give back the floor spot to CON.