Jeff Snyder is perhaps the best known spokesman for the view that gun possession is a civil right, and that therefore arguments about whether gun restrictions reduce or increase violent crime are beside the point: "I am am not here engaged in...recommending...policy prescriptions on the basis of the promised or probable results [on crime]...Thus these essays are not fundamentally about guns at all. They are, foremost, about...the kind of people we intend to be...and the ethical and political consequences of decisions [to control firearms]."[87] He terms the main principle behind gun control "the instrumental theory of salvation:" that, lacking the ability to change the violent intent in criminals, we often shift focus to the instrument in an attempt to "limit our ability to hurt ourselves, and one another." [88] His work discusses the consequences that flow from conditioning the liberties of all citizens upon the behavior of criminals.
Kind of like banning cars since you are twice as likely to be killed in a car crash than by a firearm. And you are FIFTY-FIVE times more likely to be ACCIDENTALLY killed in a car than by an accidental discharge of a firearm. Ban cars. It will save more lives.
source = http://www.the-eggman.com/writings/death_stats.html
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