People who want guns are always going to get guns, just like people who want drugs are always going to get guns, and just like people who wanted alcohol during prohibition got exactly that. Banning guns altogether will not keep guns out of the hands of wrongdoers. The illegal gun market would grow quickly to adhere to the needs of those who are set to murder and can't be dissuaded by a law that they cannot have a gun.

We'd end up having a country where only the criminals had guns. Recently there was a shooting in San Antonio where a man attempted to start a massacre. He was unsuccessful because, after he shot one person, another man who was secretly (and legally) armed shot him before he could kill any other people. Of course, this kind of information isn't reported by the media, so it probably happens more than you think. I only know this because I'm somewhat close to San Antonio and seek out this type of information. Most people around me don't have a clue about it either. This kind of thing happens more than any of us know. Attempting to remove guns from the hands of American people isn't the answer.

If you're insinuating that we should raise taxes, I'm going to continue to disagree with you. Right now the issue in our nation is that we're overspending money. It's not always necessarily on useless programs, but more often than not it's just a misuse of money. The education and military systems need to face reform. At the rate America is going, just raising taxes without reform is just going to cause the nation to overspend that money and plunge us further into debt.

To prove my point, the average spending per student, nationwide, in public schools is about $12,744
. The average spending per student, nationwide, in private schools is about $8,549. It's public knowledge that private schools produce students with much higher SAT/ACT scores who go on to a much greater future. This clearly shows that money spent in systems does not directly correlate with the quality of that system. Instead of simply pumping more money into systems such as the education system, the systems should face reform and have their money reallocated. (Here's my source for the statistics: http://schoolsofthought.blogs.cnn.co...-on-education/)