I don't understand where this whole 'If you ban guns, people will still commit atrocities regardless and you will be defenceless against criminals'. Ok. Fair enough. But if that's the case, why, in a country like Australia for example where guns are banned, has there been no shootings since 1996 and the crime rate is much lower?
The US will never ban guns. Americans are too gun-crazy to ever accept the idea. I can kind of see where they're coming from in terms of their arguments, but why do you have to access automatic weapons and almost military grade weapons? Isn't a hand gun enough?