2016 Postmortem

The tools you seek to ban via law are rarely used to kill- in fact, murder rates have declined
in the US at the very same time they have become a larger proportion of guns owned by
the public.

You needn't believe me- the disinterested observer is invited to peruse the actual reported
crime rates, available from the FBI here:

https://ucr.fbi.gov/

As far as appeals to emotion go, I'll relate some personal stories to you: Years ago,
one of my friends and coworkers was on his way to a side job very early one Saturday
morning when he was T-boned and killed by a drunk that had been imbibing all night.

This was twelve hours or so after I had last talked to him and congratulated him on the side
job and the extra $$ he was going to make. T was a good guy and I still miss him.

Several years later, at another company I worked at, another coworker lost both her
parents when a drunk driver hit them head on, instantly killing them and himself.

Later on, a member of my family pretty much drank himself to death, due
to undiagnosed and untreated PTSD.

I do not believe that reinstating alcohol Prohibition and/or
banning Scotch in order to fight drunk driving are good ideas.
Such ideas are appealing, popular- and generally wrong.

Better would be finding ways to reduce alcoholism and drunk/impaired driving
and to treat PTSD, not invoking animism.