And since we are concerned about general health here,
Staircases are the most dangerous things in a house.
Let's ban them too, by law. They probably are more dangerous than guns.
(I, do prefer a staircase in my house over a gun btw)
Swimming pools are actually more dangerous than guns. There are only 6 million private swimming pools in the US and yet 450 kids were killed by swimming pools there last year. 100 times more than by guns by percentage.
I think here swimming pools are also used to prevent drowning. Kids learn to swim. Before there were swimminglessons, a lot more children died of drowning. And banning all open water would not be an option.
No matter what you'll do, life is a lethal condition. In the end, we all will die. There is no need to speed it up by guns. Somehow statistics and economic policies and public opinion does accept the amount of deaths by car as a price for the benefits of the car. It is debatable. But it is a different debate than the debate about guns.
National health service will have to be payed by everyone. Such a sharing concept is debatable. I am in favour of sharing the costs of that. And this is also a different debate than the debate about guns.
There is a connection in that it is about life and death. But they are different topics.
