I would be happy to allow people to carry guns, as long as they were concealed, and if they were held legally responsible for how they are used, <b>whoever</b> uses them. If someone breaks into a house, or car, steals a gun and subsequently uses it, the original owner should bear responsibility for any crime committed with that weapon.
That is the only way to ensure everyone takes on the full responsibility that goes along with the 'right' to own a weapon.
I don't know what laws exist regarding the transfer of ownership of weapons - I assume private sales are illegal, and that you have to trade your weapon in at the gun-store if you want to relieve yourself of a weapon, or trade up to a new one.
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Most often the best argument an anti-gun person can come up with is that it will never happen to you so you don't need to prepare yourself for it.
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No, the best argument an anti gun person can come up with is to point out that increasing the general availability of weapons increases the chances that those weapons will fall into the hands of the criminal or psychotically minded.