I own over 150 guns. Some are machine guns. Those require a special tax, all the others don't.
Your correlation does NOT equal causation. We have over 300,000,000 firearms in this country. If what you claimed were true, we would have far more than 10,000 murders per year.
We don't.
In a purely statistical measure, you are far more likely to die from a doctors screwup.
There are 800,000 of them, but according to the AMA they kill 120,000 people per year.
Guns are not a problem.
Um according to - JOE - { 1970 } a fantastic hippie movie starring Peter Boyle
as the hardhat bigot who loathed them hippies and the way Liberals cotton
to freeloaders as in the Welafare State.
" Why work,tell me,why the **** work,when you can screw,have babies
and get paid for it."
Joe was a proud Gun owner even though he lived in New York state { Astoria }
when showing his newfound buddy { Rich executive type who was making
$ 60,ooo a year salary } his gun collection { in his basement }.
He was having the rich executive over for dinner with his snooty wife to check
out how the " Other half live }" Joe decides to show his newfound rich buddy his
gun collection in his basement after dinner.In order toi get away from the
gabby wives.Joe Curran says ... " I got what you might call a well balanced gun
collection.I wrote to Ammo Magazine and they wrote back and said ...You got
a well-balanced gun collection. "
So Joe breaks out his old M1 Army rifle and shows his hand pistols.Even a
Rifle he kept off a dead Jap.Shows his trophies for marks:menship and then blurbs
... " I got a lot of other stuff too.As he opens his Rifle Display case "
Now this.
This is my beauty.Submachine gun.You're not supposed to have 'em
but I got one anyway.You can do a lot of damage with this . "