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Well, a gun could be described as a magic wand which any Muggle can use to cast a single spell, Avada Kedavra.
Sure, people kill each other with bare hands, but this requires either very bad luck or substantial intent on the killers part.
Suppose you see a road rage incident, with two agitated drivers exiting their vehicle and confronting each other. If both are unarmed, death is a possibility, but unlikely. If both are holding guns, that changes the dynamics entirely, now death is an outcome on the mind of any observer.
Prison guards need to worry about psychopaths, but in normal life they are actually quite rare.
Most people, including most criminals, have some built-in barriers.
Choking someone to death while they are struggling is hard.
Getting within stab range and stabbing someone is easier, but still not trivial. For one thing, you need to get into their range first.
Pointing a firearm at someone and pulling the trigger is comparatively easy.
Pressing a button on a joystick to have a drone fire a missile on a target you see on a computer screen is easier still.
Donating to an organization which kills kids is really easy.
The anti-gun people expect that a youth might start a fight with another one, but reasonably do not expect that once his opponent is down, the he will proceed to will crush their windpipe. This is not always true, of course, but it is true often enough to matter.
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