mylegshurt wrote:
I have yet to hear a legitimate answer. Inform me
You have asked for "the argument" for gun control--not for gun elimination.
"The argument" is that some weapons have too great a potential for too much harm, and must be controlled. The extreme example is that no private citizen is permitted to possess nuclear weapons, and (almost) everyone agrees that that prohibition is a good thing; the more useful example is that only a few private citizens are permitted to own machine guns, and most people think that that restriction is also a good thing.
So gun (or, more broadly, firearm) control *already* exists in the U.S.A., and SCOTUS has said that such control is within the Constitution. The question, then, is not *whether* there will be gun control--there already is--but rather *how much* control there will be. And this is essentially a political, not constitutional, question.