See your point but slightly different situation, most of us need cars to get from A-B guns on the other hand are created for one reason only and that's to kill, they serve no purpose whatsoever to the everyday person. Why does the average Joe in the world need a gun? He doesn't unless it's to protect himself from another average Joe with a gun, point here is we need cars but we don't need guns (well the majority of us)
You live in a city?
Most farmers or rural people use guns as a way to control Vermon, rabbits, foxes etc or in bad cases eg when a fox rips the tongue out of a new born lamb they use a gun to put the animal down very quickly no pain.
I grew up in a country town not on the farm my father had guns he was (as in an earlier post) ex military but both him and I where part of the small bore rifle range in owe local area.
Good winning the medals.
But now I don't own a gun of any type and haven't for years, I don't need one to defend myself.
I do understand no guns no shootings I just hate all the political correctness there needs to be strict control but to remove something altogether? OK hears a example in a different way not every Muslim is a terrorist but every terrorist is a Muslim. This is a saying I have heard alot so should we get rid of all because of the few??
O and where I live at the minute there is a plague of kangaroos as in way to many destroying farmlands and causing a large amount of car accidents so the local government have handed out culling permits to farmers to try and lower the numbers.
Thank you for seeing my point thow, everything is not always black and white and I always try to show a different point rather than the politically correct one