cyklone

I think that without law we would have nothing but chaos and to quote Hobbes, life would be solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short. Laws allow us to live in harmony and to do that we forego certain freedoms (like rape, revenge, driving while drunk etc). However, given that laws are made by us, they are necessarily flawed and as such have the potential to define someone as a lawbreaker when they are not doing harm. I think that in itself victimises some people. For instance, prostitutes are frequently victimised by the law when their "crimes" actually cause harm to no-one and their profession has been accepted as legitimate by most legal systems throughout the history of the world.
One might say, The law giveth but it also taketh away, but it gives more than it takes.

With reference to your gun control debate, why not just look around you. What other countries have the gun issues that occur in America and they are not less "free" for foregoing their "right" to own guns.