>>>The obvious point that you avoid like the plague is the immediacy of the gun. Some drunken knucklehead with an axe to grind, or someone who's been "dissed", or someone who's been cutoff driving down the road... if a gun is easily available, and they are, they pull out the gun and shoot. They dont go home to buy furtilizer and construct a bomb, they pull out a gun right then and there. This "other weapon" argument is weak.
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>>And the point you ignore is that there are other weapons besides guns that are immediately accesible. I could kill you with an ink pen, a steak knife, a stick, or my hands, but I don't hear anyone trying to outlaw any of those. The gun has no intrinsic behavior - IT ISN'T THE GUN! It's the "knucklehead". We need to put the emPHAsis on the right sylLABle.
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>C'mon John. Comparing the ease of dealing death by gun with the same by steak knife or ink pen is a bit of a stretch. If you stand out on the street or wander through a school and start dealing death by steak knife or ink pen, how far will you get. Now with a gun - how far will you get. The comparison is sophistry pure and simple.

I heard there's been a recent spate of drive-by ink-blottings in Tennessee.

And some motorists have been "carved up" by steak-knife wielding thugs.