I really like this quote. I am not kidding, it really symbolizes a lot to me. But I don't want to get into that here.
Though I do feel inclined to say that the invention of the handgun was not the invention of death, just merely another means to death. If you think all violent crime would be absent with the banning of firearms, you would be sadly mistaken. Yes, the number of gun related crimes and violence would fall (though that is arguable, there are already a lot of guns out there on the black market), but when gun violence it simply replaced by a different type of violence what is the point? Guns are a lot cleaner than other methods of violence, not to mention the wholes are easier to patch up.