Meanie wrote:

As was already pointed out, that is an asinine approach to a
solution. You are disarming responsible citizens before disarming
criminals. Once the criminals are aware citizens are disarmed, expect
the crime to increase as well as illegal gun population.


-24 out of 25 gun owners have used their weapon for self defense.

-Armed citizens kill more crooks than do the police. Citizens shoot
and kill at least twice as many criminals as police do every year
(1,527 to 606).And readers of Newsweek learned that "only 2 percent
of civilian shootings involved an innocent person mistakenly
identified as a criminal. The 'error rate' for the police, however,
was 11 percent, more than five times as high.

I'm not sure I believe the Newsweek number. I recently saw an assertion that
in all shootings by concealed handgun permit holders, not a single
unintended person was shot. Now there's no specific distance between
"innocent persons mistakenly identified as a criminal" and "collateral
damage," but I still think Newsweek's claim is probably bogus.

As for the "error rate" of the cops being five times higher, that figure
makes sense when you consider that the civilian was (probably) on the scene
when the nasty business went down; the civilian KNOWS who the goblin is,
whereas the cops, arriving some time AFTER the slime started, have to guess.