content: The logic is so poor it's painful. If banning guns and ammo cost just one life, then is that also an argument to preserve them? It's just common sense that most socially relevant things both cause and prevent harm depending on context. Isolating one effect, and one instance, for an argument against something like this is the height of stupidity.  If religion could save even one life, we ought to support it. If making all drugs illegal could save just one life, we ought to do that. If banning abortions could save just one life, we ought to do that. If eliminating automobiles could save even one life, we should do it.  I think the fact that makes me angriest is that this kind of bullshit actually has power to influence the beliefs of a lot of stupid people. These mother fuckers are all about 'life', until they aren't. There are very, very few platitudes that are good or true. Rather, they aren't useful for high-level decisions. They're good for banal conversation that you'd rather just escape from. "It is what it is, man." "Well, there's plenty of fish in the sea, right?" They're an escape from particulars and commitment.