people behind the firearms that are doing the killing. So the discussion of firearms being good or bad for society is relative to the society being good or bad. Any thing can be used to kill. Take a syringe that is used for rendering aid to a person in the hospital that would other wise die if it wasn't for the drug's getting injected. Fill that same syringe with air and inject it into the carotid artery, There is a new murder weapon. So is it the weapon or the person that should be to blame for the death.