Reply #110: More guns IN CRIMINAL HANDS = more violence.

[benEzra]

The problem with the gun-control lobby since the early 1990's is that they don't particularly care about the .38 in your local criminal's waistband; what REALLY upsets them is the small-caliber rifle with the protruding handgrip sitting in my gun safe, and the fact that I (37, squeaky clean record, college educated, never even had a speeding ticket, but a working-class peon rather than an Important Person) have a license to carry a weapon. Which is why they devote all their time and effort to banning small-caliber rifles (rarely misused) and attacking CHL holders (less likely to commit violent crimes than even the police), rather than looking for common-ground approaches to mitigating criminal violence.