Quote Originally Posted by ninja9578 View Post
Certain guns are for hunting, certain guns are for self defense. Some guns have no purpose other than killing people. No one needs a machine gun except for the military or swat team. High rate of fires weapons should be banned, guns for hunting and self defense should require extensive background checks and be heavily moderated.

Less guns = less gun violence. NYC has outlawed guns and there is far less violence, very few countries have large problems with weapons, the US is one of them because guns are largely unregulated compared to other countries.
What if you need to defend yourself against the military or swat team?

Any place that has outlawed guns may have less gun violence(duh), but often times they have higher levels of other kinds of violence. Just look at the UK. Their violent crime rate is 5 times what it in the U.S. The only difference is, people are stabbing and bludgeoning each other instead of shooting each other.