Gun control advocates will argue until the cows come home that banning firearms will save lives. But they couldn't be more wrong. Guns don't kill people and guns will never be able to take a human life. People, on the other hand, are quite capable of taking the life of another. Blaming guns for murders and high crime rates is another example of shooting the messenger.
Guns are only a tool used to commit malicious acts.
If guns are ever taken from society, the club, knife or tire iron will become the next weapon of choice. The bad thing, however, is that honest people will have to resort to the primative weaponry to protect themselves because the criminals will still have their guns. To me, gun control simply has no merit. The day an honest citizen cannot carry a gun, is the day America becomes a police state. A person can only be as free as the as the rights and privileges that are given to them.