I think a law requiring a gun in every household would be a great deterrent to combat crime. Then we would only argue about which criminals to shoot.
Gun laws don't bother criminals. They can get all the guns they want and always will be able to get them. If they didn't come from America, they would get them elsewhere. If they were outlawed world wide, people would make them in their basements. I used to make zip guns as a kid. And they worked quite well. I had a 16 gauge shotgun in the closet for decades. Not once did it sneak out of the house in the middle of the night to shoot at anything.
The people we really need to defend ourselves against are the rogue legislators and tyrants who are going against the will of the people who elect them. They can take your house, eliminate your job, steal your hard earned money, legislate away your freedom, and throw you in prison all with a stroke of a fountain pen. Thus the second amendment.
How many freedoms have you lost so far? Far more then you realize.
