>When you get to the bottom of the issue, if a person is going to murder another, any weapon will do. Take away the guns and they'll used knives, baseball bats, ropes, ice picks, axes or whatever they want to commit the crime. Or they may make their own crude gun and use it.

Except that it's a lot harder to kill with all those other weapons (and most people would have no idea how to build their own gun). With any other weapon, you have to get up close and personal, so you can't take out a lot of people in a short time the way you can with a gun.

Tamar