reasons to keep guns:
my first reason is that firearms are a very entertaining piece of equipment to use. iv been to shooting ranges several times and the loud noise, the strong kick of the weapons, and then the satisfaction that you were able to hit that target dead center. shooting guns is defiantly something that i'd like to do more often, and something that i enjoy. once i am in a stable life situation ill likely want to attempt to get a full auto weapon, or maybe something of more power (20+mm) if i ever make that type of money. now the thing with guns is that it actually might help with my mental health. my life is pretty horrible, i just hate it. now while it may seem like a bad idea to give me a firearm with my thoughts being like that, it actually does the opposite thing people would expect. firearms are something i enjoy and while using them im able to forget about most things in my life and just focus on something i like. if guns were banned then that's just taking away one of the things i enjoy, making the possibility of me doing something stupid more likely (and there are many things someone could do)
my 2nd reason is that firearms are useful for personal protection. if we got organized and realized how to handle guns then there would likely be good civilians with a firearm just randomly scattered around society, meaning that criminal activity/shootings will likely be stopped sooner since there might all ready be someone there who can stop it. depending on how my life goes in the future i may want to get a concealed weapon permit or if things are good for me, at least have a firearm in the car, and i really hope that ill be allowed to do that in the future for the sake of know that i have at least some form of protection/defense.
my 3rd reason is that having firearms out there shows the truth. if there were no guns the same people who did wrong would still be around/not known, and we would have a bunch of possible murderers hidden in our society. i'd rather have my enemy shooting at me than have them hidden, and having no idea who might be bad.
my 4th reason is that it might prevent worse types of killings from happened.
first- guns/shooters are easy to stop. they have around 30-100 rounds depending on what equipment they have. with the speed that they are likely shooting, the people that they get first likely take several shots making more ammo going to waste. once they are out of ammo and reloading you have a few seconds to do something (throw things, charge them, shoot them, ect) guns also easily give off their position with that large flash so you should usually easily be able to find them. another thing with guns is that the person usually has to actually be there in order to do anything (allowing for a chance to defend/get the person who did the crime)
if you take away guns you are forcing criminals to find another way to commit a crime/killing. just look at the boston marathon, or the truck killing in france. no guns were involved there yet the truck got around 100 i think, and the bomb got several though wounding many. though you canalso get things like the kill dozer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Heemeyer) a few years back (while he did have guns iv heard he barely used them). now the thing with those things is that they are far worse. bombs - can be almost untraceable, and very difficult to find out where it came from cars/trucks - very easy to get, can kill far more than guns, and keep going even once no driver, unique stuff like the kill dozer - unpredictable, unstoppable (if armored), no plans on how to deal with, ect.
and for the 5th and final reason they are there just in case the government isnt there/isnt with us.
many people argue that our found fathers never new that civilians would be getting accurate fully automatic weapons, though the same can be said that they never knew that the government would have armored vehicles with automatic weapons, and super powerful cannons.
we are meant to have guns so that if our government is doing something wrong we could stop them.