Would a ban on handguns constitute prohibition?

[Starboard Tack]

Does the right to carry handguns decrease violent crime or does it increase it? I see no evidence that it does either.
Violent crime has always existed and probably always will, and is driven by socio-economic factors, not by individual rights, or lack thereof.

So, what is the point in debating it? Well, the problem is not violent crime, per se, but the tools used to commit the majority of these crimes. Handguns. 75% of firearm homicides are committed with handguns.

Gun-related homicide rates in the United States are twenty to thirty-five times higher than they are in countries that are economically and politically similar to us.

Some argue that the answer is to enforce or increase existing legislation.
Others say our 2A rights outweigh any potential saving of lives through restricting those rights.
Others say all guns should be banned.
Some deny the existence of a problem, because they find the thousands of gun deaths statistically insignificant.
I think all reasonable people recognize we have a serious problem. Where we differ is in finding a solution.
There is no easy solution, but there is a well recognized problem and that is the proliferation of handguns. The greater the proliferation, the easier the access, regardless of legislation.

Toters tend to lean strongly libertarian and share a philosophy that individual rights trump the greater good. Ayn Rand would be proud of them. They offer no solutions beyond expansion of RTC, which IMO, is no solution at all, because it ignores the underlying social problem.

I am not a supporter of the Second Amendment, because it has been broadened and distorted from it's original intent, which was to support local militias, and no longer applies. I do believe in an individual's right to own and use firearms for hunting and defense of home and family.
Long guns are quite adequate for those purposes.

So, that leaves the problem of “How to eradicate handguns from our society.”

I know some purists see this as prohibition, but it really isn't any more prohibitive than restrictions imposed by the EPA and other government agencies.

Here are some banned cars
http://www.care2.com/c2c/groups/disc.html?gpp=29474&pst=1500687

We could argue the merits of each one, but banning a model or type of tool is not the same as PROHIBITION