When we want to rationalize something, things like “two wrongs don’t make a right” just fly out the window.
When I was a kid average people, if they had any guns, they had a bird gun, a varmint and small game gun and a deer rifle. That’s what gun ownership was. It wasn’t the freak show we have now. I can understand having something that would take down a pit bull at close range but other than fighting the government, it is insane to love guns to the extent some people do.
I was thinking about what Squat250 said yesterday. If your gun is involved in a crime, all charges fit you. If a minor commits a crime with a gun half sentence for the parents.