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

I will first respond to his arguments before adding some of my own. My opponent states that: "We don't ban knives, forks, pencils, etc, because they are accepted in the social life. We use knives and forks to eat, and its socially accepted. We use pencils and pens to write things in books and its accepted too. But what kind of a person sits at dinner with a gun on his table? What kind of person uses a gun while writing a book? " 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. "You already figured out how the guns can be traded or smuggled. But, smuggling weapons is hard and running away from cops forever is even harder. The illegal arms dealing will be solved and if no weapon gets sold legally, there will be no easy ways anymore to get your hands on a firearm. " 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. "How is it not dangerous? In any way you use it, you can wound someone and even kill someone. An exception is if you shoot it at a dummy or something. But not the one that is being shot is always wounded, many gunners and especially the inexperienced ones breaks their arms just by firing the weapon. " 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. I have refuted my opponents arguments and will now introduce some of my own. 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. 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. In fact, the worst mass shootings normally take place in areas where guns are now allowed and it is strictly enforced, such as school campus. I now yield the floor to PRO.