Given the global importance of guns (Guns / Firearms) in war, military forces, police, self protection, sport & hunting & especially given all of the handgun accidents that result in the death of so many children each year, school shootings & other mass shootings, lets take a look at the history of firearms.
Industrial metals, pathogens & death machines, from accidents to catastrophes & tragedies, when a person misuses chemicals or devices or methods to harm other people- they can cause great harm, death of many others & worse. Look at how nuclear weapons came about & their horrific use during war times of past & ongoing threat of worldwide nuclear war - mutually assured destruction - a way of keeping peace worldwide with the thread of weapons so powerful they can end human life on Earth if we use them foolishly.
Consider also the more recent use of directed energy weapons shooting laser light or concentrated MASER microwave laser beams or neutron beams & jets of plasma or rail gun output approaching the speed of light / going into FTL or faster than light travel with exotic classified physics & stuff that I cannot even mention - you can find it on the dark web if you want to try using the onion & beware- once you see whats on the dark web, you cannot unsee it - it can stain your mind & consciousness with images you will wish you never looked at! You can literally buy anything you can think of, anything, as long as you pay with bitcoin to protect the identity of the buyer & seller //
I never condone or endorse violence or harming or hurting other people & go out of my way to help others with random acts of kindness, sharing edifying words about health & nutrition information I have learned by failing as an American with mixed metabolic confusion diet patterns. Pollution kills more people with preventable diseases than guns have in the entire history of gun availability! Microbes & pathogens have kills hundreds of millions or billions of people. If you add climate change & its impact on food prices & agriculture, soil degradation, fresh water pollution, water scarcity & water security + the negative health impacts of the general public breathing coal power emissions & tailpipe fumes & soot. While advances like 3 way catalytic converters helped to clean automobile tailpipe emissions, electrical power generated by burning carbon a very dirty & toxic air pollution generating activity on a grand scale worldwide. Swimming pools are also dangerous to small children, not just handguns to those untrained in basic gun safety.
You might claim that mixing all of those topics together in an article about guns & gun issues, an example of rhetoric or verbal manipulation, but my intent to show there exists many risks & hazards in the world, including natural disasters, that harm & hurt & kill many more people annually than accidental or intentional deaths caused by the use of guns. Automobile & motorcycle & motorcycle & bicycle & walking fatalities because of a mistake or human error executed by a poorly skilled driver of an automobile - who fails to pay adequate attention to driving safety while navigating their ~3000lb iron intensive wheeled vehicle on roadways near other people!
Sure, guns were designed to kill people, but they are often just used for sport, for self protection, for hunting in nature, for competition shooting & even in Olympic Sport Shooting // shooting guns not just about causing harm, sometimes a gun in the right hands of a sane balance person, like an upstanding honorable honest citizen- acts to give this person force multiplication that they, like law enforcement, can use as a visual threat to stop a crime, to hold a criminal until the police show up, to impose a non-fatal injury to a "bad" person- to stop personal harm from coming to the person carrying a handgun for EDC self protection -like I do - in one of several GLOCK flavors 9mm - I will never give up my weapons - to take mine someone will have to kill me & pry it out of my warm dying hands! I am a protector of myself & others near me & will never let harm come to anyone near me through either action or inaction. With God on my side as a believer & doer of the Holy Word & through excellence in all ways by embracing Christ Jesus as my Lord & Savior - I will always be a natural helper & do my best to help other people at all times & to honor God & my country (America)!
What follows is wikipedia context copies & pasted & very lightly edited! Enjoy reading the worlds biggest & best online encyclopedia!