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Quote by: brien  Society needs to target PEOPLE who commit crimes with a firearm. Firearms are inanimate objects and without a human hand to use them, they are ineffective. Targeting the firearm is useless in a society where there are over 200 MILLION of them, and who knows how many illegal ones. |
I agree, but it's hard to be proactive in such a situation, you have to wait until the crime has been committed to react, you can't stop the crime from happening in the first place. Therefore you need a two-pronged attack, one to stop the illegal guns (and presumably the criminals) to begin with and the other to severely punish those who get past the first option.
What a lot of gun-advocates preach is "we can't stop the criminals and illegal guns entirely so let's just arm everyone!" That simply does not follow.