This sparked quite a debate on another set of forums I used to be on and it will most likely get y'all talking in here.

Now I am highly against gun control in general because everybody has a basic right to defend him or herself and nowadays that means owning a firearm. No matter where you live, you constantly live under the threat of some sort of armed attack involving gun control by a gang of some sort. Even if you banned the ownership of guns from every citizen in the world, criminals would be able to get guns from the black market or manufacture their own makeshift weapons. How will we thrive as a race if we can't defend ourselves against this threat? Is gun control really necessary? I think not, what about you?