brucie: if you apply the "good riddance factor" to those crime statistics what happens? If drug dealer "A" kills a biker with a tattoo of satan on his arm at the back of a bar in Toronto aka victim "B", is it such a great loss to society? The vast majority of gun crimes in Canada are gang related..

Assigning moral culpability to an inanimate object is ludicrous. There are more murders with knives golf clubs and baseball bats that draw less media and political attention...