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That brings us to the initial point that while gun ownership and rights may be justified and better for the citizens. Arsenals of automatic weapons and thousands of rounds are not.

It's not the kind of slippery slope you want to go down. With every subsequent politician, those "reasonable" limits would go down. You don't need to ban guns to ban guns. You can just regulate them out of existence.

Also, your bulletproof guidelines are just rules which apparently thousands of people fail to follow yearly.

People have trouble following traffic rules and get into accidents that kill tens of thousands each year. Yet we don't ban driving or owning a car.

I'm not saying that they're all legal but certainly enough to prove the point that while legal guns might be used to thwart crimes they are also used to commit crimes and quite a lot are stolen from actual legal owners.

However, if you look at the number of legal gun owners convicted for a violent crime that they used their legal gun for, that number is actually laughably small.

Statistics is a dangerous tool that should really only be employed by those qualified to interpret it.

Consider that the data you provided used federal data (which is a tiny sample of all crimes), and did not specify whether those firearms were actually used in the commission of the crime the inmates were convicted of.