Reply #24: Precisely!

[petronius]

Guns don't leap off the store shelves and sell themselves.

And they don't leap out of holsters and kill people either - they sit there like the inert chunks of metal that they are, until someone does something with them. They are tools - the murderer murders, and outlawing the tool is not the same as outlawing the crime, no matter how loudly you cry "Horseshit." Some of us do not see the sense in outlawing the tool, when a) we could spend our time and effort doing something about the criminal, b) outlawing the tool is of dubious effectiveness in keeping it away from the criminal, and c) the tool in question has value to the law-abiding as well as to the criminal.

All of those goals are being addressed by the liberals who support gun control... and by the liberals who oppose gun-control, which is indeed something to think about.