Your typical leftist wants it to be illegal for a citizen to own a gun for self-defence. In recent news, an 80 year old Chicago man shot and killed an armed home invader thereby defending himself, his elderly wife and his grandson. Well done, old man, a boon service to humanity. The miscreant was a scumbag with a long rap sheet. But in Chitown it is illegal to own a handgun! That bespeaks a serious paucity of common sense in the Windy City. There ought not be any such law. But since there is, it must be enforced. Right? In the topsy-turvy world of leftist 'thought,' one enables the criminal while penalizing the decent citizen.
Laws should be few in number, rational in content, clear and concise in formulation, enforceable, and enforced. Laws should not be passed for 'feel good' purposes, to show that one is a bien-pensant 'caring' liberal. All reasonable people abhor gun violence. But the solution is not legislation that will be ignored by malefactors and serve only to hamstring the law-abiding.