People need to stop comparing guns to inferior weapons like forks, knives and blunt objects. Guns can kill you extremely quickly over large distances and are usually pretty lethal. Anyone can attempt to fight off a fork, but a gun... Not so much.
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Laser guns are a thing, and any college student can get one of those.
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Anyone whose smart enough to go to college and build a laser gun is obviously smart enough not to use it for heinous purposes. They have a future, and they know not to risk it.