The tool of choice isn't the real issue. It's the lack of morals. Skin heads in England have been wearing steel toed boots and some often work out to improve their physical conditioning to gain an advantage in street violence. When do we outlaw that?
The perspective imposed by the leftists is what is wrong. Good people forced into oppression use violence to free themselves, the idea that violence in and of itself is always evil and imposed by those who sponsor evil is wrong.
Stop looking at violence as what others do to you and look to your own applications. We do violence every day, we just choose to ignore our own. Is this not a gun forum? Then what we practice and hold up as a primary human right is the application of force to defend our own being and rights. It makes no difference what tool we use. WE EMBRACE THE USE OF VIOLENCE - The 2 Amendment is all about "keeping and bearing arms." Arms defined are tools of violence.
We don't have to impose violence on others daily, or even engage in acts of violence in our lifetime - cops carry guns but most even in this day may never pull it out and fire it in self defense their entire career. Same for soldiers - plenty never fire a shot, I would even suggest the larger majority mobilized in the last 15 years didn't discharge their weapons anywhere except a target range. We deliberately schedule actual armed conflict to a select few individuals which are less than 10% of the overall force structure.
Nonetheless we prepare and practice for violence. We teach proper safe gun handling, yes. We also teach being aware, choosing where and when to go out into risky areas, how to respond to threats, and when push comes to shove, where to aim and how many times to pull the trigger.
Supporting the 2 Amendment is about supporting the legal and correct use of violence to stop and otherwise deter those who would do the same to us. Thinking that is somehow a new or horrible thing denies the fact it's been going on for most of the time humans have existed. Why would we even have a 2 Amendment if not for the fact that humans 400 years ago were violent and we needed to meet violence with violence.
What Britain is doing with their regulations and legislation is attempting to deny their entire history. If there were no Magna Carta we well may have turned out to simply be a very large and subservient "Canada" sending our taxes to the Crown.
Any law that imposes disarmament on the people is a law meant to take away our inalienable human right to self defense and is suspect at it's core. What's next, taking away canes from old men?