Attempting to ban guns is really stupid. People that follow the laws in the first place would be the only people to comply so all you're left with is criminals with guns and victims unarmed and not prepared to defend themselves. Brilliant!

The accident rate with guns is really damn low here. There are literally millions of guns in the US. In my area 45% of all homes have a gun in them, most have more than one. In my house there are a dozen, mostly hunting rifles and a shotgun but three handguns as well.

Even with that many guns you rarely hear of someone having an accident with them. Lots more people die from car accidents than they do from gun accidents. In fact the death rate for car accidents used to top the rate for ALL firearm deaths even though the huge bulk of those are split between murders and suicide with accidents being a very tiny fraction.

Having guns or not having guns has little impact on the rate in which they are used in crimes. There are lots of fully automatic weapons in Switzerland and nearly zero gun crime. Canada has no shortage of firearms and their murder rates are quite a bit lower than that in the US. If you look at firearms ownership rates and firearm crime rates there is little to no correlation. Violent crimes are driven by other factors besides having a readily available weapon. People that don't like guns try to make a complex situation simple but that doesn't change the facts.