According to the academic experts, laws which result in less gun ownership will likely result in more violent crime. Criminals tend to agree. I'm an armed robber. Yet Washington has one of the highest homicide rates in the country. Simply because gun laws only apply to the law-abiding.
Drugs are against the law.
It is also against the law to rob and steal. Yet in Canada, police rarely allow self-defense as a legitimate reason for owning a firearm. The principle behind this Biblical law is, according to many commentators, that life-taking force may be used by a person when, and only when, lives are being threatened. This is shown by the law's distinction between night and day. Since the person threatened at night cannot appraise the threat posed by the intruder, he may justifiably assume the worst - that he is dealing with a threat to the lives of those present.