If the possession of all guns was a crime, would the man who robbed this professor still have had a gun?

As you know, that's impossible to answer. Maybe, maybe not. If the nation wasn't flooded with weapons, maybe they'd be more difficult to acquire even by illegal means. That would certainly be my hope.

Yeah, I know what you're driving at: criminals don't give a damn about the legality of a gun. Probably quite true. But are we really safer if 1 in 10, or 1 in 50, or 1 in xx people walking around have a gun at their disposal? Do you really want to live in a society where the only reason you're "safe" is that we've brought Mutually Assured Destruction down to the street level?

What exactly becomes the point, then, of the last 3000 years? Humanity's struggled with all its might to create a situation where we're *not* all carrying clubs, where we have a sense of respect and responsibility for each other. Are we giving up on that? Are we taking the state out of the quest for order?

I have no idea what he's driving at with the "Korean" bit. That this recent crime was committed by somebody whose ancestors came from Korea is astoundingly irrelevant.

I think he's in complete agreement with you. I just figured he was responding to things he himself had been hearing.