Guns don't cause crime -- people cause crime.
How about holding the government responsible for facilitating crime. Politicians and bureaucrats have created and implemented so many laws that virtually every person is a criminal in the eyes of the law. For the most part that lawlessness is a result of politicians and bureaucrats creating and implementing 3,000 new laws each year. Having accumulated to hundreds of thousands of laws and regulations.
Where does most lawlessness emanate from?
"Each year politicians and bureaucrats pass and implement about 3,000 new laws and regulations, and that number also increases on average year over year. That's how the long list of alphabet agencies came into existence. They tell us that these are must have laws and regulations that people and society can't live without.
"Question: how have people and society survived and even prospered for years and decades prior to the plethora of new, must have laws created each year? Are we to believe that people and society would run headlong into destruction without those law? Would they have us believe that man's nature is so perverse as to harm his fellow man so frequently that thousands of new laws need be created each year? And what about their nature-- the nature of politicians and bureaucrats? Are they not of the same nature as all other in the human species? Accordingly, they too would be so perverse that they would harm their fellow man. Perhaps by imposing destructive laws and regulations.
"Despite parasitical elites usurpations and harms, individuals and society prosper. For it is the creators and producers of products and services that enable and encourage man and society via science and business to survive and flourish.
"The only people that need 3,000 new laws and regulations each year are the politicians and bureaucrats."
"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws." - Atlas Shrugged