See, that’s what you’ll NEVER be able to convince these people. That if no one is walking around armed, no one gets killed. These guys have the ‘‘I have to kill someone’’ mentality. They’re part of a subset of americans that have had this inbred into them, maybe it’s the Neanderthal gene expressing. There’s just nothing you can do.
You can’t convince us because it’s impossible to make it so nobody is walking around armed. That, and people are murdered without weapons quite frequently. In fact, more people are killed without the use of weapons in the U.S. than are killed by assault rifles in the U.S.
(per FBI statistics, in 2016 (last year I could find), there were 374 murders with rifles (all types, of which assault rifles are just a subset), while there were were 656 murders with the body (fists, etc.). )
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2016/crime-in-the-u.s.-2016/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-4.xls
