: Promoting educations instead of stopping gun-sales is a cheap way to support the gun manufacturers. Everytime a new powerful unit of weapon is put out in the markets, people will have to buy weapons powerful enough for countermeasures. Then you'll have to educate the people all over again, until they develop a new weapon.
: Boy that's convenient, huh?
Let it be known right now that I have no allegiance to Charlton Heston, the NRA, or any gun manufacturer. The real moral issue that should be discussed is exactly what I mean by "education." Teach not just gun safety but RIGHT and WRONG. True, a gun's purpose is to kill, but it was the use of the gun to kill that gave you the right to express your opinion today. As for the misuse of guns I addressed earlier, a gun's purpose is not to kill indiscriminately or in an act of murder. Any use of a gun for these or several other purposes is a misuse. Guns are made to take the lives of enemies in time of war, to protect one's self when the situation calls for it, to hunt for sport or necessity, or for recreational purposes. These are the things for which guns are designed. Anything outside of these uses(ie. indiscriminate shootings, murders, robberies, rapes, suicide,etc.) are misuses. THESE misuses also lead to casualties, just like you described the automobile misuse above. But because of these misuses we don't ban cars. Because cars have another purpose - transportation you say? Guns have other purposes. I listed some of them above. Anything can be misused to create casualties. Some things are just easier with which to do it. Guns can be dangerous - if used incorrectly. TEACH RESPONSIBILITY!!
But all this aside, if you live in a place where all guns can be illiminated completely, I would really like to know where you live. It is ablolutely absurd to think that anyone could do away with every gun, or even most guns. Besides, the only ones left with any guns at all would be the ones who possess them illegally. Criminals we call them. Criminals, by definition, are ones who break the law. The ones responsible for the violent crimes commited in this country fall under this category. You can realistically keep the guns out of the hands of law-abiding citizens. You can not, however, keep guns out of the hands of, using any number of laws, people who won't follow any of them.
And, finally, I don't need any Justice's interpretation or opinion of what he thinks of our US Constitution. You and I can both read. Take another look at it. "... the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." Infringed, by the way, does not mean revoked. To the framers of the Constitution, this would have been unheard-of. Infringed here means tampered with, or interfered with. For anyone to try to force me to give up any of my rights, or to force me to live the way he/she thinks I ought to is immoral and unethical.
