Do you think it is normal having firearms?

[Andir]

To add to mrstickball's comment:

I personally don't own any guns, but my older brother owns (at last count) 27 weapons ranging from rifles, pistols, a crossbow, shotguns, to a disabled uzi. Why? He collects notable pieces. Weapons that have historical meaning to him. He has WWII American, Russian, German, British, and Japanese weapons. Even a "Tommy" gun from the early part of this century. Heck, one of the pistols handed down to him by my grandfather who worked in the prison holding some high ranking German officers after WWII is supposedly one used by one of these high ranking German officers. If the paperwork were there, this one pistol alone would be worth more than the entire collection. It's worth more to him sentimentally than it is monetarily. He's also a hunter. Now for most of the people here reading this who are anti-gun, your probably thinking that my older brother is reminiscent of Rambo, strapped with 14 guns on his shoulder when he goes to the store I assume? Hardly. The weapons are stored in a set of rather large gun safes and he pulls some of these out on a regular basis to maintain, and fire some of the weapons at stationary targets.

So, as a matter of statistics, you would tell me that my brother is a murderer (or that he would have a +2700% chance to murder than I would simply because he owns them.) Does that make sense?

It's not the amount of guns one owns, but how they are treated, secured, and maintained.

Lastly, and I'm done with this conversation after this, instead of taking an impossible stance at disarming America you should be taking a stance at educating. People who are trained to use and maintain a weapon are less likely (I'd argue impossible) to accidentally shoot themselves. Since my brother keeps his collection behind a rather complicated combination safe, his daughter has about a 1 in a million chance of ever getting to these guns and accidentally pulling the trigger. Instead of hiring a police officer to raid his house and take all the guns, hire a trainer and a teacher to teach gun safety and control. Require that a person legally acquiring the gun have a training certificate. You'll save more lives teaching than you will by taking them away.

In prisons, where guns were not available, people would make their own out of common materials. You don't need high grade metals and fancy machines to make lethal projectile weapons. You think that taking away guns and allowing everyone knives, those interested in making projectile weapons will not do so?

Even water, in a large sealed steel container can be a lethal bomb if it were heated to the point of explosion. You could arguably park a car in a crowded street with a small steam chamber in it's trunk and kill hundreds without ever touching a gun, or regulated chemicals.

Taking away guns is not a "magic bullet" to solve violent crime.