User blog comment:FanOfStuff/Shooting/@comment-1844926-20121215045021/@comment-2186558-20121215170600

Trey,  this is just one example of a shooting. That would be like saying, for a really stupid example, we should ban marbles because once some guy slipped on one and got a concussion.

Sure, this time he got his mom's registered gun, but he was probably insane, so he could have easily just got it through non-legal methods- admittedly, he might not have, but it wouldn't surprise me if he still ended up doing something that killed someone. Making guns illegal would make people not have them for self-defense (I'll get to that later) and it would, as I already stated, rob people of hunting, which they both find fun and is a huge part of the ecosystem.

No-one's saying the Constitution's perfect, but saying that it's stupid and the country is full of dumbasses because of one scenario is, to put it bluntly, really stupid.

And as for self-defense, people who own guns aren't always "pow pow pow! bang bang bang!" as you seem to believe. In most cases, all the person would actually use the gun for is to scare the robber into either running away and not taking anything, or staying in the house until the cops came (as an example)- they'd probably only end up firing the gun if the person who broke into their house had one too, and... In that scenario, why shouldn't they fire the gun? Should they let them and their family get murdered because they didn't want to become a murderer?