It was never a weapon that killed a person, it was the always the person pulling a trigger.
History has always been the guiding light for the future, unfortunately people seem to think that they can defeat human nature and hence imagine to themselves how they can beat it. People tend to make the same mistakes that people in history made, over and over again.
Sounds rather discouraging when it is stated so blatantly without any consideration to how people may feel about the facts/truth.
It is difficult to put ones personal opinions in front of LOGIC, yet too often the extremists who don't care for logic will brand someone as "anything negative" just to unjustly discredit them, rather than admit that LOGIC should prevail in all laws/legislature.
This is a very sad world we live in, very sad.