your liberal idiocy is backwards, as usual. your approach would increase crime against innocents because those with criminal intent would not surrender their guns
Every single gun that ends up in the hands of criminals was a gun that was first bought legally by a "responsible gun owner".
Every. Single. One.
No guns just manifest out of nowhere, into a criminal's hands.
They only get guns three ways:
1. They steal them
2. Someone gives it or sells it to them
3. They find it
In all three cases, the gun started its life out as a legally purchased weapon.
About 300,000 guns are stolen from people's homes, businesses, and cars, and 15% of the time, you don't even tell the cops when they are stolen. So that means that about 60,000 guns end up in the hands of WHO KNOWS every year, and the source of their guns are "responsible gun owners".
There is no other source for weapons for criminals. YOU are the source.
So you buy a gun to protect your home, business, and/or car from criminals armed with guns they stole from homes, businesses, and/or cars.