>>12
It's not about how good the gun is. Little Johnny might still be able to get Soldier Boy with a pea shooter even though he's decked out in camo-everything and kevlar.
>>13
What the fuck? That's completely pointless and stupid. Almost everyone has better things to do than dick around at night. they'd just as soon put it in the hands of a police department, which isn't exactly a bad idea.
And besides, the people with guns would suddenly feel better than the people who aren't allowed to have them, sort of an arbitrary superiority. They would then be ten times more arrogant and bragardly about it ("look at my gun, heh heh, wanna touch it heh heh") than police are (even doing good work, a police man is very authoritarian and vengeful with his authority... though the difference is that he is given a task, and he knows it; a citizen suddenly allowed to carry a gun is just someon who the kind has decreed can).