An excellent quote

[unixronin]

To ban guns because criminals use them is to tell the innocent and law-abiding that their rights and liberties depend not on their own conduct, but on the conduct of the guilty and the lawless, and that the law will permit them to have only such rights and liberties as the lawless will allow...  For society does not [successfully] control crime, ever, by forcing the law-abiding to accommodate themselves to the expected behavior of criminals.  Society controls crime by forcing the criminals to accommodate themselves to the expected behavior of the law-abiding.

Jeff Snyder

(Emphasis and minor amendment mine.  Originally posted in guns by heypete)

Comments

[beckyzoole.livejournal.com]

No, we have a ton of laws that are "you may not own X, because a criminal might do Y with it".

Do you want to keep a supply of morphine pills around the house, to use wisely if ever needed? Can't do it.

Do you want to grow marijuana plants for their hemp? Can't do that, either.

How about a little plutonium in a lead jar, for educational purposes? Or some anthrax spores, ditto?

Child pornography? Forget about it.