Do you think it is normal having firearms?

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Cryoakira said:

 

Ok, so as long as something is legal, then it's perfect from an ethical/moral/ideological point of view ? Wow, interesting. So I guess laws never change in your country ?

Seriously, I agree with you : firearmes are not the origine of crime.

However, they happen to be, generaly, far more lethal than others basic weapons. Before you're able to stop someone with an uzi, he can do a LOT more casualties than someone with a knive or a baseball bat. That is, unless you run faster than a bullet... (i'm not). Firearms create "death opportunity", and that's "normal", since they don't have any other purpose.

Do you think that grenade or rocket launcher or C4 should be sold at Wallmart for self defense ? Probably not, because you think it's far too destructive and dangerous, even disproportionate. I do think the same about firearms.

 You have to look at it from this persective as well.  Simply outlawing the guns will not remove them from the economy.  If you make it illegal, only the law abiding citizens will not aquire them.  At that point, you would then have criminals intent on using such weapons with them in hand.  There is no possible way to remove and destroy all the guns across the entire world.  It's a task as daunting as implementing a perfect DRM.  There will always be these devices in the world, and people will find ways to aquire or manufacture them.  I'm sure if you had a utopian society where everyone felt safe, they might let the guns fall in disrepair and not purchase replacements, but there are far too many crimes and wars in the world to ever see that in mine or your lifetimes.