I have always found the pen and pulpit more effective weapons than guns. Nonetheless, I suggest that the 1999 shootings at Columbine, Atlanta, and Ft. Crime, of course, is decreasing overall in this country. However, violent shooting sprees on unarmed citizens seem to be on the rise at least they are getting much greater publicity by a ubiquitous media, hungry for a story of any kind, or perhaps even interested implicitly in championing the gun control banner. The Rationale of Gun-Toting When you and the other guy are both carrying a firearm, and when you have no particular desire to get shot, it s quite prudent to avoid assaulting the other guy, whether physically or verbally.
Civilian war is an aspect of their modus operandi, and guns are simply a part of that equation.
As long as there are guns, wicked men will find and obtain them. If every last gun on the earth were confiscated and destroyed, wicked men would create them. Unless gun-toting murderers are on a simple kamikaze mission, they are not interested in forfeiting their own life simply to take someone else s. In other words, they do not consider it desirable or inevitable that they be killed in the process of killing somebody else. If they know that the other guy is surely carrying a firearm that can end their life after they pull the trigger or as they are preparing to pull the trigger they might have second thoughts about their murderous intent.