Sure, but unfortunately, it's the individuals who wish to own and carry guns which are the primary reason for arming criminals with guns.
You lost me there. Who is "arming criminals with guns"?
If all of you guys weren't so gun happy, then guns wouldn't be manufactured and sold into the population at the levels they are. But go on, keep sending out the message that we need guns!
I don't think you need a gun, and I am happy that you don't have one. I do think you need the right to have one. If anyone exercises that right and either miss-use it, or fails to secure it from violent criminals, I am happy for them to suffer the awesome power of THE LAW based on the circumstances of that failure.
Does that make me "gun-happy"?
For what it is worth, I have more often heard the argument that the anti-2nd amendment stance is the single largest generator of gun-sales into the population so arguably your philosophy is what causes guns to be manufactured and sold into the population at the levels they are, rather than those you oppose and seek to disempower. Feel welcome to check up on those stats, if you like. Check out the relationship of google searches on "gun violence" (a term manufactured by gun control advocates) and "gun control" and correlate that with firearm sales spikes and troughs.
Where does that leave you but throwing stones from a glass house?
Your gun-control advocacy does not meet your own policy goal. Please consider other more reasonable methods for achieving your goal.