[TomGullen]

Sword control and gun control is a terrible comparison.

Replace the guns with swords in crime, do you think equal numbers of people would die? Obviously not, guns are far more easy to kill with, less physically demanding and ranged.

With a sword pretty much everyone has a good chance of running away, a massacre isn't really possible.

[harshreality]

Then why did Australia and the UK ban swords?

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/03/08/1078594297517.h...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7331099.stm

[TomGullen]

Probably because they thought they were dangerous as well? Guns are unarguably MORE dangerous than swords though.