Reply #34: Sure, but if the overall death rate doesn't decline because criminals use other weapons

[slackmaster]

You would not have accomplished anything meaningful.

That is pretty much what has happened in Australia by the way. Handgun deaths down, bludgeoning and stabbing deaths up.

I don't want to take away your sports guns, I do want to make it more difficult for the cretins of America to get their hands on weapons that make it easy to kill from a distance with impunity.

I don't follow your logic. A weapon that can kill a deer or a bird from a distance can just as easily kill a human from a distance. A weapon that can accurately punch a hole in a piece of paper from a distance can just as accurately punch a hole in a human from a distance.