Actually, a tool is anything that can complete a task. A person can be a tool (and often is). A gun is a tool. A thermonuclear device is a tool. None of these things is inherently bad or evil, because they require users. To steal a line from a bad movie, "Guns don't kill people, people kill people."
What about swords? A sword is 100% weapon, yet in today's world when people see swords most of them think either 'movie prop' or 'art piece.' Nobody actually thinks that someone might use it to eviscerate them.
And you should remember that personal weapons used to play a big part in society - people brought their daggers to the dining table, which is where our table knives eventually came from. Japanese samurai wore their swords at their sides at all times, and bumping into someone's sword with your own was grounds for a duel to the death. Do you think this is barbaric? It was custom. No more and no less civilized than anything we do today.
It would be naive to think that weapons are unnecessary for self defense. Laws are for the people that follow them - if you ban guns, you will make the law-abiding citizens easier targets for gun-toting criminals.
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