"HP was once known as a research ant technology giant..."

I hear ant technology is the wave of the future!

Hey, finally someone with some sense!

A handgun by default is not to kill people. Take 100 random people who legally own handguns, and ask them how many people they have killed with theirs. 99% of the private citizens who own handguns use them for target practice. God forbid, one day them may have to defend their life against people who wish them bodily harm, but that is by far the exception.

*A gun is specifically designed, tooled and sold to kill life-forms.
I own several guns. I hunt with 1, and the rest are mostly for target shooting. Sometimes its funner to go out and "Kill" some aluminum cans and paper targets. Not everyone out there buys a gun and kills stuff with it all day long.

*A brick or a screw-driver are a building block for walls and a tool for mounting screws respectively.
*A knife is a utensil for cutting food, rope, etc etc.
My point is that if you woke up tomorrow and the whole planet had no guns, criminals are going to move to the next handy thing that they can harm people with. Guns aren't the problem, the people are, and the failing criminal justice system keeps turning them back out on the streets.

*if you are caught carrying a knife in public, the blade of which is longer than your hand is wide, you are looking at up to 10.000 Euros in fines and 6 months in the slammer.
If you get caught walking around the streets of the US with a handgun in your pocket that you are not licensed to carry, you are going to get jailtime and fines as well, but criminals dont care, they continue to carry handguns.

Its easier for people to focus on guns as the problem because they can say that no one should have guns, when you admit that people are the problem, its a lot tougher, and the solutions tougher as well. Many people use guns=evil to pull at peoples emotions to support their particular agenda.

While I do use a gun to hunt, 90% of my time is target shooting, and just being outside enjoying nature. Guns can be used for other things besides killing things exclusively.

"Today, anyone can just claim he's just exercising his right to be armed right up to the point when he does something criminal with it. With a weapon ban in place, whenever a police officers finds someone with a weapon, they can take him off the streets on that charge. They don't have to wait for him to do his evil deed."

I agree with you, except the part noted above. Are you saying they shouldn't be able to exercise their right to own a gun because they might use it illegally at some point? So how is a gun any different than a screwdriver, brick, hammer, etc.? Should I not be allowed to own those because I might use them illegally at some point too? Should the government ban owning a penis to stop rapes? :-) England has banned private ownership of guns, and the response has been a large surge in knife attacks. Criminals will use whatever they can, and realistically I agree with you that criminals aren't going to be the ones turning in their firearms if they were banned.

So it took that long to determine his pastor was racist? And that just happens to coincide with his run for presidency? Not a likely coincidence in my opinion, but he's pres now, so might as well make due with current issues at hand. Hopefully he turns out to be great.