Yserb, i didn’t say to throw in the towel. I meant that you can’t drain all of the guns from law abiding citizens while criminals will continue to have them. Limiting future manufacture makes sense, and down the line, you can start limiting sales, while keeping the ratio between legal guns and the availability of illegal weapons equal.
You don’t want a situation where criminals run amok terrorizing an unarmed civilian population. The reason why rural areas have less crime is because people are armed.
And it’s not NRA propaganda: many, many invasions are prevented by gun ownership. And the possibility that the home owner is armed is a powerful deterrent. The amount of break ins in Texas, is not the same as new York City, and there’s a good reason for that.
I do agree that it’s rare that there’s a hero who stops a murderer because he was the good guy with a gun. But that’s because not all that many people carry guns; if more did, it would happen more often.
Not that i think everyone should do that; just explaining the numbers.
And again, you’re falling back on the “big scary gun” talking point. I suggest learning a bit about firearms first. I did, because i found the gun rights debate interesting. A 9mm Glock pistol is every bit as deadly as a rifle. Just one is longer and scarier looking.