All guns are taken away from honest people - leaving only the crooks and the police with guns.

The crooks, knowing no-one can defend themselves, find all households easy pickings. Hold ups run rampant.

Many people trying to defend themselves end up being shot. If killed, their productivity goes down to zero. If wounded, there are medical bills coupled with a loss of income. Their productivity suffers.

It can all be covered with insurance... which, of course, would skyrocket. Even before the affects of gun removal would be felt - because the insurance companies know what would happen.

On top of this, add the collapse of the whole firearm industry - metal suppliers, powder suppliers, sporting shooter clubs, outfitters, camping gear, safes, firearm manufacturers, their specially designed safe transport, etc., etc.

If cars and transport were treated like the anti-gunners want to treat guns - leaving them only in the hands of the professionals - then there would be a vast increase in public transport and private licensed mass moving transport to compensate for the loss of our cars.

People would move closer to their jobs or get jobs closer to home.

There are already many thousands of people who use publics transport, even travelling great distances.

The affects of car removal - as in leaving them only in the hands of the necessary people - would be minimal though the surrounding car industry would have a similar residual and flow on effect as removing guns would have. But it would be within their respective industry.

Seeing as you brought freedom into it, you would also have to weigh up the loss of freedom removing firearms would have, as you would now be totally as the mercy of the gummit. (Cross fingers and hope no tyrants get into power, eh?)

What is more important... freedom or a car?

Michael Ross