-MIKE- wrote in :

[...]
I can also point out that there are a thousand times more deaths by
automobile, but no one is banning them. There are hundreds of times more
deaths from baseball bats and hammers, but no one is trying to ban them.

This is untrue.

There are very nearly as many deaths due to firearms in the U.S. as due to automobiles
(roughly 31000 vs 34000, respectively, in 2011).

Over 60% of the firearm deaths are suicides, about 2% are accidents, around 25-30% are
murders, and roughly 5% each non-murder homicide (e.g. self-defense) and "undetermined
intent".