Okay, you gun control advocates, let's play like you get your way. In this fantasy, we've eliminated all guns from the United States. No handguns, no rifles, no shotguns, certainly no automatic firearms. And let's also assume, for the sake of argument, that we've figured out a way to keep guns from being smuggled into the country, and that we've also found a way to keep any ol' idiot with some fairly simple and straightforward equipment from making their own gun from scratch (I'm not just any ol' idiot, by the way — I wouldn't have a clue how to make my own gun, but there are plenty of folks who do. Oh, and that makes me a special idiot.).

So here we are in a country with no firearms, and no prospect for ever having firearms. The Brady Campaign's Utopia.

Does that mean we don't have any more murderers? Gangs? Rapists? Robbers? Muggers? Think about that for a minute — when we get rid of the guns, will we have gotten rid of the criminals, too?

Of course we'll still have the criminals. So we'll still need to figure out how to deal with them, but we'll have to do it without guns. No gun for the mugger's target to defend himself. No gun for the battered estranged wife to defend herself from her loco soon-to-be ex.

So, why don't we just skip the "let's get rid of guns" part, and just go straight to the "let's get rid of the criminals" part? Wouldn't that seem to make more sense?