Sure, how am I supposed to cut my steak?
Plastic knife, chainsaw, or simply bite off pieces from the fork?
See, you are illustrating the point: You will NEVER use that to do another harm. The vast majority of us, exponentially, never would. Whatever we abolish, shouldn't just be about taking away "what I don't personally use or care if it disappears."
In this case, guns truly are 'blamed.'
"What good are they for?"
"Why do we have them?"
If I ate my steak without a knife, I might ask the same question and WRONGLY put the blame for stabbing on knives.
1) YES we all could get along without them, but the inconvenience would be an inconvenience.
Likewise, 'inconvenience' doesn't necessarily apply to all gun owners, but the removal of them does indeed deprive them of guaranteed self-protection and protection of those they love, as well as in many cases, what they provide for their families with them as well. Sure, you can break this down, but in the end, such at least similarly and empathetically applies to our steak knives as well. I 'would' use a steak knife for protection, especially of others. I would likely use a gun, more effectively (more than likely, I'm proficient). 2) That anyone would misuse a steak knife or a gun, is unconscionable. Criminals 'think' that these things are weapons to harm another with and hurt them for selfish reasons. They should be denied access to spoons, imho and we should be paying attention, when we see the warning signs. In most cases, the writing was on the wall, long before the crime ever happened and simply 'removing guns' is but one of many things on my list to remove
from them.
Listen: I'm fairly certain I have no problem with you owning and using dynamite. I'd 'want' you to have a little training, but you have every right to remove that stump on your property, or collapse that dangerous mine on your property. Just because a terrorist would misuse it, doesn't mean I don't trust you with it, or shouldn't have it. I would simply ask you to not be irresponsible with it, to lock it up, to not accidentally blow yourself up, etc. There is a bit more involved with both guns and dynamite, but I'm saying abolishing them isn't the answer. You should be able to cut your steak without resorting to acts of a caveman. If the bad-guy were deprived of a steak-knife, because everyone was deprived of a steak-knife, he'd use a rock or she'd use poison. Have your steak-knife, I'll work on keeping everything from the bad-guy &/or removing the bad-guy. -Lon