Not as hard as you might think. The bad guys will still have their guns, if they're outlawed. They will have underground businesses selling guns. Getting guns, like drugs, on the street isn't so hard. In other countries where they didn't have laws to allow guns in the first place, they haven't built up this culture of violence, so they don't have as many deaths by guns.
Guns are also used for protection, and that was why we have a Constitutional right to them. However, I don't think any type of weapon should be permitted. When that right was given us, you had muskets, which are very different from hand guns, pistols, machine guns, etc.
Guns are also used for hunting. While I don't know much about hunting, I think I've heard that, on the one hand, if you hit your target in the right place, he will die quickly. But, if you don't get the right area, the animal will escape, wounded, and suffering. That bothers me. I'm sure the same thing can be said of arrows, but I think you have to be a bit closer for animals, and you're more likely to hit the appropriate area of your target. However, he may not die as quickly.
There are arguments both ways.
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