I'm talking about people not from America. You guys just think that outlawing guns would solve everything, but you have much different cultures, people, everything. It might've worked for you but it doesn't for us. We have such a different community than you do, so it's hard to understand that outlawing guns wouldn't do anything.
It's the same thing with Alcohol and Drugs. We have tried outlawing alcohol, crime rose up, alcohol stayed the same. Same with drugs. Drugs are outlawed, so explain to me why there are around 12 million people using drugs within the past month?
Also, look at this. Columbine happened in 1999. On the wiki page of the massacre it states that they broke two gun laws, the National Firearms Act and the Gun Control Act of 1968. They also broke the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Assault_Weapons_Ban]Fede ral Assault Weapons Ban[/url] which bans Assault Weapons. As you can see these bans did NOTHING to stop Columbine, one of the worst school shootings in America.
The problem is mental illnesses. But how can you prevent that? You can't. You can't just look at a kid and say, he's going to kill people tomorrow at school, lets get him mental help. The problem is that these people don't seem any different then most socially awkward people. It's not until they actually do something that there's any differences. There's kids at my school who look up to Hitler, who want to kill people, I have my feelings that they might one day do something like this, but I can't say for certain other than it's something in my lizard brain setting something about these people off. I have no proof other than they're a little off their rockers.
Bans in general do nothing in a culture like America. In fact, from what history has told us, bans actually raise crime. What makes you think this is any different? Just cause guns are involved? Guns might harm people but they also save other people's lives. I know one person who is alive because his father pulled a gun on a robber, and fired. That robber had a weapon as well and had all intents on harming someone. If guns were banned, then the law abiding citizen, A.K.A 99% of the gun owning population, would be screwed over, having to deal with the robber, not a law abiding citizen who was actually found to be in possession of a stolen weapon, with nothing to defend themselves with. Bans don't work. Take this website for example, has a ban ever stopped others? No, they make alts.