No!
Logic dictates that we don't want to disarm criminals, we want to allow prospective victims to arm themselves to give the impression to wannabe criminals that crime doesn't always pay and there is a risk involved in being an infringer on legal citizens rights.
Criminals don't tote a caring attitude toward rights by definition and will always have access to fire arms via illegal promotion without concern.
Anti’s often fall back to the ‘utility’ argument. But rights are not open to bargaining away because some people do not recognize any benefit. It is just nauseating to hear self-righteous people scold us, ‘does anyone really *need* a gun? I don’t think so.”
Yet again, when government moves to seize a private social responsibility, it is not long before nobody can imagine that anyone should be allowed to perform the function on their own. Just as with social security, where too many people could not imagine saving for their own retirement and therefore nobody else should be allowed to either, now we have too many people who just cannot imagine that citizens should be allowed an effective means of self defense. We can only allow officials to protect us.
These people’s intelligence or lack of it just amazes me.
Whoodathunk??