Gills, while the idea is noble the logic is flawed. The criminals don;t care about the laws and are not afraid to break them. If you want to really read up on the gun control debate try reading the studies that have been done proving that gun control is flawed.

A good read would be John Lott Jr.'s "More Guns, Less Crime" a detailed study with scientific data to back it up.

In 1991 Professor Gary Kloeck of Florida St. University did an extensive study that found thatself defense use of firearms by US citizens occured 2.5 million times per year.

When Bill Clinton was POTUS, Attorney General Janet Reno and the Justice Department set out to prove the lies of the gun ban crowd. They commisioned a survey by the anti-gun Police Foundation. Unfortuantely for them the survey backfired and mirrored the results of professor Kleck. The study was so dissapointing to the anti-gun establishment that they never released the results and the findings were not discovered until 1997 and of course it was largely ignored by the mainstream news media.