Comment by ataturk

Why? Don't the cops carry guns, too? Aren't guns value neutral, like all technologies? It is humans that do evil deeds with guns, not the guns themselves. Guns don't enable crime anymore than they enable to ethical application of the law. If you look at Brazil, there is a thriving underground gun manufacturing industry that supplies the criminal element because guns are a 200+ year old technology that is well understood by pretty much all of humanity at this point. It's a lost cause to ban technology like that.