[RavenBeef]

You made some good points.

However, the knife is the weapon of choice for gangs. It's an FBI statistic. So, unless you want to argue with the whole FBI, then agree with it. I never said anything about using a gun vs a knife.
We're talking about unarmed civilians, vs someone armed. Namely, a knife. The majority of people aren't armed. Making them easy targets.
Guns are easy to get, no matter what laws anyone enforces. The same with drugs.

Gun laws are pointless, btw. If banning guns doesn't work, then how will gun laws? Illegal firearms are always easy to get from people. Not to mention, all the already owned guns.

Lets assume that guns are taken away. What will be used most now? Knifes? Baseball bats? Lets ban those next, since the death count is higher with these weapons. Ban/restrict/enforce laws for the prime death count weapon. Then we're down to logs, clubs, and sticks. Lets burn trees, and make cutting trees illegal. See? The murder problem doesn't go away. For as long as man lives, there will always be fights, anger, war, and murder. Banning guns wont change this in the least.


Make to everyone owning a gun:
Lets say, someone with a gunis going to go and kill 40 people this one day.
If those 40 people are armed with their own guns, yes, some will "hesitate" but, maybe not. In the heat of battle, adrenaline starts to flow. 1-40 WILL fire their gun to stop this guy. Unless you're suggesting that everyone is a cry baby, and would rather scream, yell, cry, and do nothing rather then step up. Which is obviously not true.

Knifes work.
All you need is about 4 gand members with knifes in their jackets, or sleeves. Walk up behind everyone, casual, normaly in line for what ever, then, everyone takes out their knife, slits the throat, or something, and bam! Silent, untraceable crime scene. Only dead bodies. We're not talking about a css moron running from across the map at someone with an m4. We're talking about getting up close fast enough.

Don't hate guns for your loss of friends. Guns aren't the problems. And if guns weren't around, it doesn't mean they'd still be alive either. All someone really needs is a hunting bow. These not only penetrate ALL forms of armor, but are silent as well.

My Mother hates Golf because her father used to get drunk at them, and come home, and beat the family. Does this make Golf bad? Of course not! Did this make alcohol bad? In the hands of the wrong person, yes. Same as firearms, fire, cars, knifes, etc etc. In the hands of the WRONG people, they're bad.
No one is trying to dispute this fact. I'm not at least. It's HUMAN nature. Man will always find ways to kill others, no matter how many laws, or weapons are restricted. Last I checked, weapons aren't allowed in prison either. Yet, there are a number of deaths that accure with, and WITHOUT weapons.

A gun in everyone's hand can't be proven, or disproven either way. The reason being because it's never been like this before. (The wild west movies don't count) We can argue all we want about a theoretical world. The fact of the matter is, gun laws don't work. Banning guns wont work. Murder will still accure. Placeing a gun in everyone's hand may work. We don't know. It hasn't been tested yet. Also, it would make the government impossible to control anyone in the event of a civil war. (Either for right, or wrong) The Civil War (1861–1865) was from the union/Government invading the south. Now, there are great debates as to who was right, or wrong in that war. Either way, the government wants full control, and doesn't want to have a war the next time they plan to enforce something new. Like, the Civil war.