I wonder why there are no mass shooting (or, as a matter of fact, any shootings) using laser blasters... Oh, maybe it is so, because there are NONE in people's hands...

So, what makes people think that proliferation of small arms (in hands of unstable, untrained general populace) makes us safer and proliferation of big guns (tanks, submarines, missiles in hands of trained military personnel) makes our country vulnerable and unsafe... Contradiction, eh?