If Switchblades Can be Banned, Why Not Guns?

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Switchblades are banned in a number of states, and in a number of countries.

For example (from Wikipedia)
Belgium
Article 3, §1 of the 2006 Weapons Act lists the switchblade or automatic knife (couteaux à cran d’arrêt et à lame jaillissante) as a prohibited weapon. In Belgium, the police and local jurisdictions are also allowed to prohibit the carrying or possession of a wide variety of knives, which are not explicitly banned by law, if the owner cannot establish a legitimate reason (motif légitime) for having that knife, particularly in urban areas or at public events.[34][34][35]

Canada
Switchblades are mostly illegal to sell, buy, trade, carry and possess. Part III of the Criminal Code defines such knives as prohibited weapons (armes défendues). While certain businesses can be granted a license to acquire and possess prohibited weapons such as switchblades for use as props in movie productions, these exemptions do not apply to individuals.
Also banned in Mexico, Spain, Slovenia, etc.

A bunch of U.S. states ban the switchblade too. Wisconsin, Hawaii, Colorado, Washington, etc.

Switchblades have been banned in jurisdictions in which they have been deemed a menace to society. Yet guns kill far more innocent people. To the gun-worshiper, the gun has an almost mythical quality about it, as if ownership of the god was granted by Providence itself. BUT IT'S JUST A MATERIAL OBJECT! And as such, like switchblades and ricin, it should be subject to being banned, when the harm it causes far exceeds any good it accomplishes.