Look at Japan. Their city with the highest crime rate is at like .05%. New York is something like 20%. The biggest difference is that in Japan, owning a gun is illegal, unlike here in the US where they can be picked up by kids and brought to school.

Hmm: Let's say your facts about NYC crime are true. I have no idea. I do know that handguns are illegal in NYC, though. So your point is incorrect. Banning guns is a band-aid solution, the problem is systemic. Criminals will always find a way to get handguns just like how they always find drugs.

"Also, the less guns there are then the less crimes there are and less of a reason for you to have a need to protect yourself. It’s a fact that guns make it easy to gain control over people."

That's interesting because I think it was the idea when the 2nd Amendment was added to prevent the government from controlling us.

The second amendment was put there to protect people, not harm them. Just like drugs and alcohol... if you make them illegal you push them to the fringes and into illegal markets. Banning weapons won't keep them out of the hands of criminals (e.g. are there no gun crimes in DC? Or even less in recent years because of it?). Banning weapons just keeps them out of the hands of law-abiding citizens. We shouldn't impose laws against the fringes because then the average middle loses in the end.