Take Away All Guns If Posible - Agree? - 33,000 Lives Saved Per Year Worth It?

[branford]

188. As others have already indicated, two-thirds of firearms deaths are suicides,

and our suicide rate is comparable to other countries with much stricter gun control, and significantly lower than gun control havens such as Japan and South Korea.

Australia also didn't round-up or ban all guns, and the number of firearms in Australia is now about the same as before the ban.

Lastly, although I've never owned firearms, I see no reason for a ban and confiscation. Only a tiny minority of legal firearm owners ever engage in criminality, and firearms have perfectly legitimate uses, including self-defense, hunting and sport. Notably, with respect to self-defense, all a firearm ban would accomplish is ensuring the small, frail, and outnumbered would almost always be disadvantaged against mainly young male criminals. Most importantly, as you acknowledge, such ideas have nowhere near the requisite democratic support and are entirely impractical.