If owning a gun is a right, should guns be subsidized for the low income?

[gejohnston]

59. not arming everyone

that is something that is up to the individual situation and that individual. Personally, I would support amending the 1968 Gun Control Act to include those convicted of some violent misdemeanors (right now only domestic abuse is) and and animal cruelty (even as juveniles) being defined as "prohibited persons" under the act.
Of course firearms are not the only viable options. a good pepper spray works reasonably well. Of course neither is perfect or ideal. The Star Trek phaser on stun is yet to be developed.
I would prefer a situation where it would be legal but simply not customary because people feel safe enough like Vermont for example or the Czech Republic (like the part of Wyoming I grew up in, we all had guns, but they mostly were unloaded at home, didn't open carry although legal, didn't lock the doors) to, and have a strong social safety net to prevent problems. You might find this ironic, but that is how the "wild west" actually was. Yeah, Dodge City and a few places had drunken cowboys during cattle drives. Once the drovers sobered up and went back to Texas, Dodge went back to being Mayberry.

When I was a kid, one of my classmates did shoot his step-dad. Step dad was in a drunken rage and was beating the kid's mother to death, kid got one of her guns and abruptly ended the violence. It was ruled justifiable by the family court judge (him being a minor in 1968), even under Wyoming's duty to retreat law, (did not have a castle doctrine then, the one now is narrow and specific and nothing like Florida's or California's). That is not to say he grew up unscathed. You won't see him a gun show, but you won't see him at a Brady Campaign gala either.