Guns should not be manufactured and marketed for children, period. Period.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

256. Because, like it or not, guns account for the overwhelming majority of homicides in this country.

By over a 5-1 margin over the next deadliest weapon, that being knives.

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-8

Sure, someone can always use something other than a gun as a weapon, but chances are it's less likely to result in a fatality. Guns are hands down the most efficient legally available deadly weapon. They do things that knives and blunt objects and fists simply cannot do. The fact that being a deadly weapon is the primary intended purpose of a gun as opposed to merely being incidental to its intended purpose certainly brings this home.

You cannot stick your head in the sand or wax nostalgic about the "good old days" where you took your gun to school and pretend that guns are not an issue in this country in this day and age.