This should be the Pro-Gun Platform and brought up in every debate!!! Before I left NY, I was talking to a friend that asked me why I was leaving. I told him guns and taxes. He said I understand the taxes but not the gun thing, I told him almost the exact statement below. The great thing is he understood that! I will say he wasn't anti-gun but definitely not pro-gun, never even held a gun.
"When criminals are afraid to rob another man because they don’t know who else is around and who may step in to stop them, that’s when you start having safer neighborhoods. The smart criminals figure it out rather quickly. And the dumb ones? The ones that live have plenty of time to tell the rest while they’re spending time in prison or the hospital."