Gun Control & RKBA

More logic:
- Since fewer deaths and injuries is good goal, I want to find a commonality to exploit that will help in reaching the goal.

>>> Seems like a good idea. I'm not seeing anything wrong in the reasoning so far.

- Looking at the means of assault shows that a firearm is used more often than in murders than any other means.

>>> Seems like a good idea. I'm not seeing anything wrong in the reasoning so far.

- If I can rid the world of firearms, I can cut deaths and injuries a great deal.

>>> There are 2 huge problems with this: first, you can't. Second, since a firearm is also the first line of defense against the assailants, even assuming that every lawful honest person agreed with you, there would be a point at which the divestment of firearms from the lawful honest folks (all the non-criminals) was balanced by the theft and loss of firearms from the police and military. There would also be a concurrent rise in the use of other weapons for criminal ends. Even if the firearm was no longer the "worst offender" and tool would take its place.

The use of this kind of non-logic leads to things like assault weapons bans. The idea is banning weapons with the potential of killing the greatest numbers in the shortest time. The problem with that thinking is that those types of weapons are also the ones that kill the fewest people per year.

In truth the greatest commonality to exploit among violent crime is the criminal. The worst among us are imprisoned, disarmed and monitored 24 hours a day and yet prisons are often the scenes of violent assaults.

* UBCs are a good thing. They can cut the rate at which the lawful honest folks unwittingly pass firearms on to those with violent histories.
* Picking a type of gun as the "worst offender" leads to a total ban. Since, even with bans on the "worst offenders", a new "worst offender" will take its place. Consequently, the job will never be done, many folks that would never murder or maim will be criminalized by the banning process and the cost of banning guns will quickly exceed the cost of gun violence.