Reply #31: "I'm hard pressed to think of a better social-utilitarian definition of "good" and "bad"

[Starboard Tack]

And yet the "good guy" toters in this forum constantly use the term "bad guys" to justify their toting. What kind of social-utilitarian rationale is that?
We wouldn't want anyone who has been convicted of a felony and paid his debt to society to be able to defend himself against a "bad guy", even though he may have been convicted of a non-violent crime.
The inner city drug dealers and gang bangers tend to victimize each other in turf wars, rather than the "law abiding" citizens who make up their customer base. The prohibition of drugs and the drug war provide the uneducated and under privileged with a sub-economy. The availability of guns makes them the cheapest and easiest way for young males to assert themselves.