having a gun dosnt make you a murderer. and the real murderers dont need to follow laws to have and use a gun.
so your entire logic is wrong.
I wasn't saying that everyone carrying a gun is automatically a murderer.
And i know that real murderers get their guns and stuff whatever the laws are anyway.
But really, if you start giving people guns to protect themselves, you are basically making it easier for the wrong people to get their hands on the weapons as well.
Right?
Of course, banning weapons won't completely solve the whole problem.
The crazy people that wants to forget up everyone's day will get their weaponry anyhow.
People already get paranoid because of such news, giving them guns too
may eventually result in people shooting just because they suspected the other might shoot them.
Of course, not everyone is paranoid and not even all paranoids would shoot people out of suspicion, but it are things to be considered.
Do you want to make it easier to people to get themselves armed just so they can defend themselves (but perhaps giving more chance to crimes involving guns)?
Of course, the crime rate doesn't have to rise up immediately when you give everyone a gun, but it's a though decision and i personally stay on the side that would rather see something like they have in Europe (no weapons for those without gun license and all) then seeing something like America, where practically everyone is allowed to carry a gun out of self protection.
My example of Africa and the such are an example of how guns
could make things worse.
Everyone there, including children, hired/slaved/whatever by armies or not, who can carry a gun, carries a gun.
You hear of a lot of criminal activity there involving guns, might be how the media focuses on things, but as far as i know, things are really bad there.
Really, fighting fire with fire is not always the solution.
Because that is what your idea is.
You wanna give people guns, so they can shoot people who will most likely shoot them.
