Owning a gun should not be considered a right so much as a privilege. Yeah the second amendment is there for a reason but the beauty of the constitution is our ability to change it and manipulate it for the good of modern society. The majority of this conversation has been looking to developing countries penile systems for a solution instead of looking to other G7 countries and talking about what there doing. Sniper, Well put. Fear is the greatest measure in deterring crime.
Nobody wants to kill anybody, but it has to be done to killers to save face for the good of society.
A small example being Turkey. Everybody has heard this analogy but it does ring true. If caught stealing in Turkey, that cut off your hand or hands for the crime. Look at it this way. Fear is a great deturrent to anything.