Lethal Violence in the US is facilitated by firearms

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2011/09/mexico-security-1.html

We are a nation that prizes our freedoms, but I think its time to re-evaluate the need to have millions of guns floating around.  I'm not saying that you can't go to the gun-club and shoot, but do you need to have an AK-47 to feel safe?  Automatic or not, these are wartime weapons and should be tightly regulated.

Guns make impulsive killing easy, and lead to crazy rampages when the mentally ill cross paths with a guns-trader.  Every country has violence, but you only need to look at the statistics to see that per capita gun deaths in the US are higher than any of our industrialized peers, and right alongside many developing nations.

The article below discusses this issue in greater length:  The bottom line is that lethal deaths in the US can be avoided by more strictly controlling the tools that people use to kill, that is to say guns.

http://harvardmagazine.com/2004/09/death-by-the-barrel.html