Me And A Gun

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indeed, so why shall we give those bad hands a "tool" to kill someone on will?
doesn't matter if me, good boy, handle a gun, if someone wants to shoot me dead there is nothing i can do right? (except dodge bullet that is).
So hmm.. i'm still not buying the fact that even if everyone has a gun we will have a "polite" society, i see a bloodbath incoming.

Blobe- look at it this way:

I can make a firearm from a piece of steel- I've actually done it. A functioning, serviceable weapon. Making it illegal won't deter me (assuming I am a criminal). Now I have a firearm and nobody else does. I can essentially do with it whatever I wish.

Now lets assume there are other firearms about in the hands of regular citizens. I take pause in using my firearm because someone might engage me. It is not necessary for everyone to own a firearm. Not everyone is suited for carrying a weapon. It is the uncertainty of who might be carrying that gives the criminal pause.

As for a bloodbath, in states that have passed "Right to Carry" laws, violent crime has dropped an average of 38%. Quite the opposite. In fact when criminals were asked what they were the most afraid of the most common answer was being shot by a potential victim. Not the police, not jail, but being met with an armed citizen.

The problem isn't an inanimate object, it is lax enforcement of laws already existing for misuse of a firearm, it is lack of sufficient deterrent effect of prison in the US, a breakdown in societal mores, a culture of immediate gratification and the prevalence of serious narcotics (crack, meth, heroin) that creates the problem.