Originally Posted by
Mantra
Well of course you individually owning a gun is not an infringement. But on a mass scale we know that the deregulation of guns leads to an increase in overall gun violence, so it's not a question of you, the individual.
An individual drunk driver does not inherently lead to anyone's harm, not 100% of the time. It is possible for someone to drive home drunk without a problem, but that doesn't matter, because on a large enough scale the risk becomes too great. So we've taken a preventative measure by making drunk driving illegal. We try to lower the risk of people getting hurt beforehand. Likewise, gun regulation is a preventative measure, trying to lower the chances of a guy with a documented history of paranoid schizophrenia from purchasing an assault rifle before he opens fire on a crowd.