I would have images of my family enjoying a good meal. Going on vacations and such. Not my family in caskets. I have no feelings for a criminal at all.
Any places in the US where guns are restricted suffer a higher crime rate. Taking guns from law abiding citizens does not hamper the criminal at all. He gets his guns illegally. All that taking law abiding folks guns does is ensure the criminal is empowered.
I have been of the exact same thinking for many years.. Somehow, certain kinds of people can't seem to understand this.. Their argument is remove guns or restrict them to a degree where all you can do is pretty much shoot once at some small birds and then spend 1/2 an hour reloading the thing.. Ultimately, we all know why certain powers that be(trying to stay a way from anything political) would have a field day with more restrictive gun laws.. But, as my fellow squadie Shuffler says: Criminals aren't going to go to a gun store to obtain their weapons.. So any kind of stricter gun laws will not inherently affect them for a long time.. There's quite a large amount of unregistered firearms out there.. It would take a long long time to gather them all.. A long time..
Until then, the average guy with more than the other guy is going to even more of a target than he already is..
Case in point.. Since hand guns have been made mostly illegal in England (Scotland and Ireland have more lax laws), violent crime incidents have risen steadily, especially burglaries..
This is showing that criminals know the chances of being shot when committing a crime are very low.. Also, crime rate in the UK is higher per capita than the U.S. (again due to hand guns being made illegal for anyone to own unless it had to do with your job which restricts them to police, security or military).. Also, criminals in need of a gun in England still have very little problems obtaining them.. So, England's strict-arsed gun laws pretty much did the opposite of what they expected..