The gun grabbing left likes to draw parallels between gun and crime and implicitly link guns as a cause of violent crime.  But if we eliminate guns, will we eliminate murder?  Murder can be commit with any object at hand if the desire is there:

A woman who died at her Spencer home was apparently suffocated by a ceramic decorative plate, shaped like an Easter bunny, that had been shoved down her throat, authorities said as they charged her husband with murder.