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Originally posted by MuadDib
Guns are something to be feared because they make it easier to kill. They aren't bad in and of themselves, but they can be, and often are, used for bad just as frequently as they are used for good. They aren't necessary and there is no reason to make it easier for humans to kill for any reason.
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Just a few notes:
Knives make it easier to kill, but do you 'fear' them? I personally have a healthy respect for guns and knives, but I don't 'fear' them.
Second, statistics don't support your argument that guns are used just as frequently for bad as for good. It's been posted several times that it is estimated that there are somewhere between half a million (pessimistic) and 2 million (optimistic) defensive gun uses annually. Compare this to the approximately 18,000 annual gun deaths (pessimistic, including justified uses), and the non-biased observer has to conclude that guns are used more often for good. But good uses aren't news worthy...
Third, our founding fathers found guns to be the sine qua non of the revolution and with that memory fresh, wrote the second ammendment. So guns are VERY necessary when the government begins to trample the rights of its citizens. Unfortunately, there are many examples of such cases just in the 20th century alone.