Death Penalty for Gun Possession, Right?

Please consider two recent news stories: the shooting death of Redskins safety Sean Taylor and a home invasion in Olney, Md. where the homeowner came home to find the burglar in his garage. In both cases, innocent men simply protecting their homes were shot by men who had no reason to have a gun except to make themselves feel safe while committing a crime. I beg the question: Would either of these burglars feel the same need to carry a deadly weapon to a non-violent crime if it carried the death penalty?

Anyone found with an illegal firearm should be subject to capital punishment. Of course a judge would have to approve of the sentence being handed down, and self defense would provide some sticky goings at first. But after the law was accepted, and thus feared, imagine the effect it would have on city crime reports.
If you decide that a cause is important enough to need a deadly weapon, then the state should remove you from society. This is not a matter of rights, it is a matter of living in a society and possessing something designed solely to kill. (Take it easy, D.C. has outlawed guns completely for years, I am not speaking about hunters.)


Once someone picks up and loads a gun, anything can happen, the damage to society has been done. A split second of bad judgment, or worse no judgment at all, can end countless lives. For this reason, the societal worth of someone holding a gun becomes a negative value. I am sick of peaceful and well-meaning people who pay taxes and try to do good being scared of stupid street thugs looking for respect from their stupid peers. DC has outlawed guns for a while now, but the law needs teeth.
Drop the drug laws and focus on guns. Yes, I know drugs kill too, but deaths connected to drugs are almost always tied to guns. Drug dealers are bad, but an idiot with a gun is exponentially worse. Small charges for gun possession has not convinced these morons to put down the heat, because they see it happen to people and after they "do a bid" they reemerge with more cred than ever.

I don't know where I heard this, but its true: "Going to jail only makes a criminal into a better criminal." Going to the electric chair however, has a different effect. No one ever accidentally has a gun, as is the case with doing something stupid while drunk or even robbing a store, or a person, when hungry.

Capitol punishment for gun possession would seek to change the drug game because we cannot expect to eliminate it. I am not imagining that this law would completely eradicate gun possession, but it would make the average street kid, specifically a thief or burglar, think thrice before choosing to use deadly force to resolve some argument he would probably forget soon anyway.
Economically speaking, if this law would go into affect, illegal gun prices would go way up, as people would be less willing to deal in mass quantities, thus petty thugs would have trouble getting them, and eventually, hopefully, American homeowners would no longer feel the need to have them in the same home as the very children they hope to protect.

To those who may see this as a cold and inhuman idea, please consider the principle of deterrence -- the same one that kept the U.S. and U.S.S.R. from destroying the world for decades. If someone knows that an action will result in their annihilation, the chance of them committing the act is severely lessened. So long as the gun is a staple of the inner-city the death penalty should be attached to it.