Quote Originally Posted by HNSB View Post
Assuming it is not known that the individual is a sociopath by anyone other than the sociopath, yes.
I hope that's one of your trademark joke posts

Though I can't seem to grasp the logic behind giving a deadly weapon do a disturbed individual, who is by laws of probability more likely to commit a violent crime simply by reason that he OWNS one and has the possibility to use it. And simply creating laws to punish those who commit the crimes is not the answer either, since laws are reactionary instead of proactive and would do absolutely nothing to prevent said sociopath from, say, murdering a family in the first place.

There will, of course, be those that will use your stance as an extension of the "if everybody is armed nobody gets hurt" argument, which is as naive as it is shortsighted: If another armed bystander shoots the aforementioned armed sociopath whilst in the process of murdering the family, does that not also have the potential of harming other innocent people in the process?

The risk of harm to others is simply too great....