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Your argument, plainly ridiculous, is that mere possession of a gun or dispossession of a gun is the sole factor that makes someone commit gun crimes.
What I am saying is that gun possession has nothing to do with someone's propensity to commit crime. If everyone carried a gun, criminals would still be criminals and law-abiding citizens would still be such. The only thing that would change is that law-abiding citizens would now have the means to protect themselves from the criminals.
What we have now is a situation where in many places, carrying a gun is illegal. Criminals do not care that it is illegal and carry one anyway. Law-abiding citizens follow the law and do not carry one in those places. So, criminals are the only ones armed.
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I'm sorry, but I thought it didn't matter. There are laws protecting you, right? That's what you said.
Also, like you said above, the criminals don't care if it's illegal. They could shoot me just the same. So pretty much... everybody will have to carry a gun. You are forcing that on us.