18 vs 21: Hand and Long Firearms: Let's Take a LOOK

Some may criticize your terminology, but your question is valid and thought-provoking.

The answer is that those who want to control guns have found a disproportionate number of handguns are used in crime by the 14–20 crowd. In fact, most criminals of any age prefer handguns. But…. The gun controllers don’t want to address the criminals. The bulk of the criminals seem to be a major component of their voting bloc. Put too many criminals in jail and their mamas are going to protest and not vote for you. So, what to do?

They take the position, however illogical, that the guns themselves compel evil. Criminals are evil, and the guns made them that way. There must not have been any criminals before guns were invented. Meaning the Ten Commandments were 3000 years before their time.

That’s their position. So, if guns are evil, if guns force people to become criminals, then you must prevent all people (starting with a small subset, then working up), from getting guns. Once you prevent handguns from the younger set, and assault-looking black rifles from everyone, then you can go after all semiauto weapons, then shotguns and so on. Just look at how the British did it. They took a high-profile atrocity and convinced the good guys they couldn’t be trusted to handle their own guns properly, so they turned them all in - at least anything big bore and anything semiauto…. That’s the gun grabbers dream thought process going on here.