Everything you just mentioned though is also somewhat on faulty rearing. My family has very few people that actually own guns yet all children are taught that guns are extremely powerful and dangerous weapons. You mess around with them and you'll at best destroy things or hurt someone, and at worst you'll kill yourself or others.Gavmando said:The problem I have with the add is that it's glorifying guns. And with the massive crime rates and gun crime in America, it just seems stupid to add fuel to the fire... But if you show an add like that on TV, then kids will see it, and think that guns are cool. Games like CoD have a rating system for a reason. So that only a mind that is mature enough to handle it gets a hold of it. But if it's a TV add, then kids will see it and will be raised with the same views, and the cycle of gun loving will continue.
People only become stupid enough to think, "guns are cool! I'm going to buy one and shoot it all over the place!" when they aren't taught to respect that a weapon is a weapon and not a toy. Like I said this stupidity is rampant among guns and swords. Also, I wouldn't attribute guns much as a direct cause for crime but more to extreme paranoia, race relations, stupidity and people who can't deal with stress and anger properly. If you got rid of guns people would only replace it with another weapon to kill each other.
Also, while you can buy assault rifles it's not that easy to get a hold of one. From my understanding you need licenses that make you more qualified to have specialty weapons. You can't just walk in and be like, "Durr I'll buy an assault rifle." The only way to get guns more easily is the black market. I have no idea where you'd go for such sales but I do know it's a rampant problem here. People own all sorts of things they have no business buying.