Let's just ban anything that can hurt anyone. Legislation will solve everything.
I'm not "pro-gun", I'm pro-freedom, or pro-rights. Rights and freedoms come with sacrifices. Giving up your rights for a false sense of security is naive.
Setting aside the infringement of rights topic for a moment, focusing on the tool of destruction is never going to work. There is a much deeper, and more complex problem at work here. We need to identify and understand it. Simplified talking points for political purposes make me sick. As a nation we are smarter than this, so why does it perpetuate?
Statistics don't matter, for either side, "gun-control" isn't going to solve the problem. It isn't even part of the solution.
Think about how ridiculous it sounds to ban all cars and pressure cookers...
"Shall not be infringed..." can not be taken lightly.