Common sense.
If every gun magically disappeared from the country tomorrow, most of us wouldn't be affected at all. Most Western democracies get along just fine without private gun ownership. Guns are a cultural thing, not a necessity at all.
YOU DON'T NEED A GUN.
Now, for good or ill, we've built our entire society around the automobile. Unlike your gun, which sits in your closet most of the time, I have to use my car at least three times a day. It's a critical tool I simply can't get by without.
But if you want to treat guns like automobiles, I'm down with that.
Every gun owner should be licensed, required to carry insurance, have their guns registered and licensed, and subject to periodic inspections. And we should have a sizeable portion of the Police dedicated to enforcing gun laws, instead of the paltry 2400 ATF agents.
The Western Democracies murdered more people in a few years than the gun murder in the entire 250 years of the United States...
Europe...
In the 1920s, they began the process of registering guns....to make their people safer. That was the lie. by the mid 1930s, the socialists in Germany began the process of banning and confiscating guns, and the same for the countries they defeated......using the gun registration lists created in the 1920s....
By 1939, the German socialists began to murder 15 million - 20 million people....in 6 years.....men, women and over 1 million children.
6 years, 15 million- 20 million murdered citizens..not war dead, not killed as a result of combat..... innocent people rounded up and murdered in camps and forests....
Including 1 million children
15 million in 6 years.
In the United States, gun murder for our entire 249 year history?
Around 2,490,000
Europe.... 15-20 million murdered in 6 years.
U.S..... 2,470,000 murdered in 247 years
How many hundreds of years will it take the U.S. to catch up with the number of Europeans murdered by their governments.....
Lives saved....based on research? By law abiding gun owners using guns to stop criminals?
Case Closed: Kleck Is Still Correct
There are roughly 100,000 people shot in the United States yearly, and something over 30,000 die. If this 1/3 vs. 2/3 ratio of deaths to injuries in actual shootings pertains in these DGUs, that makes for
at least 176,000 lives saved—less some attackers who lost their lives to defenders. This enormous benefit dwarfs, both in human and economic terms, the losses trumpeted by hoplophobes who only choose to see the risk side of the equation.
https://dailycaller.com/2018/09/06/case-closed-kleck-is-still-correct/