No.
If a person wants a gun.... They will find a way to get one.
If a person had .. Had a gun in South Carolina... Maybe not so many would have died.
No guns mean that the BAD guy gets to kill more people.
Gun control. Is it time to admit that right to carry is a failure?
This would be like say that the automobile is a failure do to how many accidents are caused by drunk drivers. Guns and the right to carry arms is important. The reason we have this amendment is also important. The amendment was created so that governments would not have the power to overthrow its people, and allow its citizens to hold arms over its government if needed.
Far from it. Most gun owners never point their gun at another person. The guy in SC was a bigot and a racist. Back in the 60s there were people burning churches, which resulted in people dying. Do you think they should have outlawed matches?
It has been shown that where more carry concealed that crime has gone down, so its far from failing. There will always be idiots and hate and evil in the world looking to make a name for themselves but truth is if it weren't for guns, these people would only find something else. The problem is keeping the guns out of the bad people which is no easy task. Now POTUS Obama wants to get rid of guns to make taking over America that much easier - so forget gun control here.
To quote from a headline in yesterdays Times. "I've never seen anyone shot by a person not carrying a gun."
Those countries that have rigid gun controls, (like most of Europe) have, generally-speaking, a tiny fraction of the firearm-related crime that exists in the US.
I'm not going to draw conclusions from those two statements, but others might.
You also might want to look at the following:
http://www.juancole.com/2013/01/firearm-murders-equiv.html
The above is out of date, but the number of firearm-related murders in the UK in 2014 was 9. (Granted, it was a good year, and there were plenty of non-firearm-related murders).
If you allow guns into wider society, that means that the proportion that will misuse them is a larger number than if you don't.
It's very simple, if you take away the right to carry, you are not taking guns away from criminals, you are only taking them away from law abiding citizens, AKA the good guys. Criminals do not follow laws, that's what makes them criminals, AKA the bad guys. Some people believe that making guns illegal will keep them off the streets, we should make heroin and meth illegal too!
“The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles.” - Jeff Cooper