Do you think it is normal having firearms?

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Andir said:
Using your post, I would assume you would outlaw bodybuilding next because with bodybuilding a knife can be a deadly weapon? And there's really no purpose to bodybuilding except making yourself stronger than someone else and thus able to kill?

Also, by your explanation of a reason to ban guns, then we must also ban swords as they are killing tools. Daggers, slingshots, crossbows, bows, any axe over a certain size, hammers of more than a certain weight and boomerangs. Everything I mentioned was designed to kill at one point or another in history. Another thing that was designed to kill is nuclear reactors, rockets, and bombers. You should also place razor blades on a "watch list" because they can be tied to a tongue depressor and be used to slit the throat of a victim (Shiv, a weapon designed to kill with no other use.)

Oh, and I forgot, the root of all killing devices. A pointy stick.

BTW, guns are used for target shooting, clay pigeons, collecting, and most recently to shoot t-shirts into the stands at football games. Yes, those are air powered guns and could be loaded with potatoes or rocks and do some serious damage as well.

 All hand to hand weapons require more energy/knowledge to kill than firearms.

 If i'm not mistaken, Japan has firearm ban, and almost all murders/assasinations are done with knives/swords/katanas/other hand-to-hand weapons.They are pretty tricky to complete, because you need to be at close range, musk know how to take down the victim with first strike, and so on,  so i bet there are waaaaaay less murders in Japan than in USA.