I agree very strongly with Kev’s post above, guns make killing and serious injury far too easy. It’s almost the push-button way of doing away with someone, pull the trigger and that’s that. I appreciate there are perfectly sane people who own and enjoy guns, and I myself have a historical interest in firearms (although I don’t own one). But the fact is that guns simplify killing, and it therefore makes it easier for situations to lead to dire consequences much more quickly.
Although this thread is about what a person with a gun can do to other people, there is also the question of what gun owners can do to themselves. Rates of suicide are MUCH higher in countries like the US where guns are readily available. People get drunk, get upset, and make a fatal decision, a decision that has been made available to them by the existence of the gun. If there were only more difficult methods available to them, would they have gone through with it? The figures suggest not.
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