Exactly. I want a fucking F22 so I can protect myself. I want grenade launchers, and I want an H&K MP7. If we're supposed to be able to protect ourselves against the government, I at least need equality. A little Glock pea-shooter isn't going to do anything.
How about nuclear weapons? I think the world would be MUCH safer if we all just had a big red button that we'd all carry around in our pockets that would end the world with 1 press. Think about how much safer we'd be.
To those making the argument that because cars cause more fatalities than guns, we should ban cars... or since spoons lead to choking deaths, we should ban spoons; There's 1 critical difference. Cars are specifically designed to transport people. Spoons are designed to feed people. Guns... are
designed to kill people. See the distinction?
It's small, but it's there.
To reiterate my original point... if we put guns in the hands of everyone in society, we're putting our lives in the hands of those people too. Sorry, but if anyone decides to put a bullet in your head at any moment... you will NOT have the ability to defend yourself from that...
Let's touch on the "you're going to die either way, if someone wants to kill you. Banning guns won't make you safe" argument. Sure, someone could stab you. Someone could run you over. Someone could throw you off a high-rise building. Someone could drown you. Lots of ways someone could kill you without a gun. But here's what I find unsettling; Guns give you point-and-shoot access to end anyone's life with the click of a finger. People die in firearms accidents all the time. Even police die in firearms accidents, and they've got more training than 99% of society. Those accidents wouldn't be possible if it wasn't so incredibly easy to just simply pull a trigger to take someone's life.
There was a drive-by shooting in Jack London Square in Oakland a few weeks ago. I believe 5 people were shot, none fatally. Do you think if guns weren't accessible to the shooter, that drive-by shooting would have been a drive-by stabbing? Can you imagine him jumping out of his car, and stabbing people? No, that would have presented a problem for him. He was shooting people because it was the easiest thing to do without the potential of getting caught. Do you think he would have just simply ran everyone over? I'm guessing probably not. But because of the ease of pointing a gun, and pulling it's trigger... that's the tool that made it happen so easily and conveniently.
The goal should be eliminating the convenience of killing, not attempting to make it more convenient to kill people.