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Fun fact: in the original Harry Potter movies they used magical wands instead of guns. Harry Potter (with guns) is actually just a popular fan edit of the lesser-known original films. >

Thank you, last time I saw this it got removed. >

Except Britian is the centre of that universe. The US wizards probably still have magic guns so.... >

They're called casters my guy!
..sorry, outlaw star reference >

When guns can perform spells that completely change the foundations of our society and everyday lives, in addition to just going bang bang dead dead, I'll reconsider my gun stance. >

Thats assuming:  
1) guns can do more than kill people and destroy things.  
2) also enforces strict gun control through education, enforcing proper gun maintenance and laws with “killing people” being outlawed. By HP standards, every gun owner needs at least 7 years of training before they can use a gun. >

I mean they get their wands their first year at 11 years old and are only a restricted section in the library away from learning how to kill people with it. >

In their defense, first years can barely get a feather to float so using a forbidden curse could probably just as likely backfire and kill them.   
The kids dont learn about the forbidden curses until year 4 and I think Harry is only able to get into the restricted section thanks to his invisibility cloak so Im assuming its pretty hard for the regular wizard to get the info.     
Even if we go with the gun allegory, the HP society has imposed a 7 year education minimum before trusting the people to use their guns properly and responsibly. Im not against gun ownership (not that its an option for me), but gun education seems to be a reasonable basic requirement. >

To be fair, you don't need a forbidden curse to kill someone, just a bit of creativity >

Wands would only be comparable to guns if guns came as part of some kind of swiss-army-knife-on-steroids-esque multitool and the actual gun part had some kind of mind-reading-via-tech-that-looks-like-magic trigger lock for if you were in the right state of mind (as to effectively use the Unforgivable Curses you need to be in a certain headspace) >

Assuming a United States centric view of the world you might be correct
Except everything about the movie, actors included, is from the UK