[The Urban Sombrero]

In my opinion a gun (no matter the type) is an inanimate objec. A gun has never taken a human life ever without another human either pulling the trigger or improperly using handling or storing it in some shape form or fashion. If you took every gun away from every person right now we would still have mass killings. People who want to kill will do so with whatever they can get their hands on. They can try to regulate guns all they want but they can never regulate the evil that is in a mass killers heart so they will accomplish nothing from it. I think people are quick to forget about events like the Boston bombings and the Oklahoma City bombing, if they were to start banning guns I think events like that would become much more common. A single mass killer with a little time on their hands and an Internet connection can google how to make a bomb properly that if used correctly in the right time and place could kill way more people then they ever could accomplish with any gun. So what are we going to do then? I think my single main problem with banning any type of gun is this. If you were to ban AR's right now who do you think would turn their guns in? It would be the good law abiding people who are the exact ones who need the protection of the guns in the first place. Do you honestly believe the criminals and mass killers are going to follow the laws that they never follow anyway? So we would be disarming all the good people and empowering all the bad people. Do you have any idea how impossible it would be to track down all those guns that over the years have been traded and sold over and over again? Sometimes I wonder just how much crime is stopped every day just because the criminals think in the back of their head that if I break in this house or car jack this person or rape this person, what if they have a gun? Banning guns will never fix the problems we have in this world and just might make things worse.

"Let's pass a sensible law that says if a person is on terror watch list or 'no fly' list that they can't purchase a military style, "mass kill" weapon."

"If we outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns."

Seriously, folks, is this really the best level of debate we can muster?