ReillyT
Senior Member
Not supported by facts. Mass transit exists as does allowing commercial licenses with strict controls. Just as even in the most restrictive city Police and law enforcement can and do possess weapons.
Further a totally disarmed public only leads to totalitarian governments. Remove from the people the ability to resist and you ensure that eventually Government will become just that, Totalitarian.
Go to Bosnia and tell them how wise it was for them to have no right to own weapons before the split with Yugoslavia.
Without getting into the majority of your post (as gun ownership doesn't greatly interest me one way or another), the benefits of a mass transportation system of highways and vehicles is pretty clear. Yes, the deaths on the highway are compensated for by the fact that our national economy is dependent on this system. Perhaps guns should be legal, but it is not the case that they provide the same level of economic (or any other tangible) benefit to the nation as the highway system.