TnT says:
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That there are subcultures that don't know how to properly exercise our
rights, does not mean that the rest of us should be deprived of being
able to exercise those rights ourselves.
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Your argument is seductively simple, but it flies in the face of most
laws that are passed to restrict your actions.

Let's take a very simple example: lawn darts (at least that's what I
think those "toys" were called). After some period of use, it became
clear that these darts presented a serious danger to people using them
in recreational activities in backyards and on picnics (that is, people
ended up getting them stuck in their skulls).

The darts were subsequently taken off the shelves at your local ToysRUs
and, as far as I know, are no longer avalable for sale. Using your
logic, we should all be outraged that, because of a few careless
people, we've been denied the right to toss lethal darts in the air at
our mother-in-law's picnic.

That's the nature of laws in a civilized society -- the "people" decide
that certain activities, products, whatever, do more harm to the
"greater good" than it's worth. IMHO, guns fit into that category.

Many of you Americans clearly disagree. As you can. But as you
disagree, it might be useul to examine how much ownership of guns
parallels ownership of lawn darts. In both cases, innocent people are
injured and die due to accidents. Had the lawn darts/guns not been
lying around, that misery could have been avoided.

frtzw906