Guns being prevalent in America is the only reason the cops here don't go full boot-on-face mode like in Eastern Europe and Australia.

guns serve an important practical violent purpose for society but sometimes things happen with them (this is "a car drove into a crowd" language )

sometimes people kill each other

guns exist for the purpose of shooting things,

however shooting things is no less practical or important a purpose than getting from A to B

the usefulness IS the danger they cause

Lawn darts are a purely leisure item whose usefulness didn't outweigh the danger they caused.

and they still got banned, unlike guns

Im comparing preventable deaths to even more preventable deaths. You cant regulate or ban guns nearly as easy as you could regulate cars. If saving lives were a concern they could pullout more regulations on cars to save lives butt theh dont bc it would be impractical/unpopular. Youre argument seems to come down to some type of philosphy pertaining to the intent of rhe killing, like a child who dies in a car accident is somehow more moral than a kid killed by a gun, butt at the end of the day a death is a death and legally its much easier to save lives by regulating cars than by regulating guns bc their is no constitutional protection or right to drive a car. Any politician more concerned with regulating/banning guns than refulating cars to make them safer is clearly a powerhungry hippocryt