An extensive gun control is necessary. Face it, the majority of Americans don't want their guns taken. Whats the need for Automatic rifles? To make the gun banners happy, ban those and keep semi automatic guns..

For anyone who wants to use the classic "We need guns to fight the government if they become corrupt" line; Look at your current election. You have a choice between, what is it, Hilary Clinton, Jeb Bush and Donald -blam!-ing Trump. If there was ever a time to use your weapons against the government it is now, so unless you're going to start another civil war tomorrow that argument is not an excuse.

switzerland has shit down. just look up their gun laws

Or we could do like our forefathers intended and get a set of bear arms for everyone and quit misinterpreting shit...

No penis poll?! Come on guys...

Then there is the people who's only source of food is long range hunting. (Bullets are cheaper than meat.) They'll possibly start starving. I am pretty sure a deer will get away before they get close enough to cut it up... As for the mass shooting thing I agree 100% on the subject. But the right to bear arms is so that the people could protect themselves against a corrupt government should the need arise... and it be an unfair fight if the government had long(er) range guns and us short range blades. So I think it's a fifty-fifty possibility...

When was the last time the U.S. had a mass shooting with an assault rifle?

I mentioned this to my cousin who lives in the U.S. I told him I could give him a knife, rock or a spud and that would still constitute as being "armed". NOTHING says anything about firearms. But it does says that militia will be trained and organised. Something which American citizens are not. Americans pick and choose what they want and ignore the rest.

1 - There is no "gun problem," there is a "murder problem." The question is whether presence of guns makes that better, worse or has no effect. And the answer to that is less clear than you may believe. Countries with far worse murder rates (example, Brazil, with about eight times as many murders) have far more restrictive gun laws (in Brazil's case, guns cannot be transported outside the house, and you must be 25 to own a gun). Could give many more examples. The U.S. murder rate is #111 in the world out of 218 countries. "But it is still high for the developed world." Yes, but so is its inner city poverty problem, which is the actual issue. Within the U.S., two extreme examples. Plano, Texas is an affluent city of 200,000. Being in Texas, it has loose gun laws and high gun ownership rates. Detroit, Michigan is a struggling city hammered by the shrinkage of the auto industry. It has some of America's tightest gun laws. Plano, Texas has an annual murder rate of 0.4 - much lower than the UK's murder rate. Detroit, Michigan has an annual murder rate of 56.0. 2 - "But I saw a " gun deaths" chart ..." Charts that show "total gun deaths" by country are misleading, either deliberately, or because whoever created the chart has no understanding of statistics. "Total" - The U.S. has 320 million people. The other countries featured on these charts usually have about 4 to 65 million people. Of course the U.S. total will be higher, just as we have more deaths of nearly any kind. "Gun" implies the gun is the issue - no gun, no death. Yet people find ways to kill or die in Brazil, and everywhere else, with poverty being a much larger factor than gun laws. "Deaths" are 60% suicides, but charts like this imply they are mostly murders. Net result is a gibberish number that means nearly nothing. 3 - "But suicide is bad, too ..." Yes, it is. It is also bad in France, Belgium, Finland, Japan and Iceland, all of which have higher suicide rates than the U.S. 4 - "Well, however you present it, guns are designed to kill, so of course having fewer would be better." And, this is where we reach the point of a belief that is evidence for itself.

What about those who hunt?

Inverse penis poll ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

What about bear arms?

Why not just use dueling pistols? If you want to kill a whole bunch of people then you just need to duel them first.

Except when he suddenly gets a gun illegally and the phrase bring a knife to a gun fight becomes viable again

Replaces mass shootings with epic sword duels. Sounds cool lol