Lets continue your hyperbolic argument.<p>Should we give every individual easy access to ICMBs, Tanks and Nuclear Weapon ?<p>The difference is two fold.<p>1) Encryption is useful to society outside the need for killing people. That is why you really cannot compare encryption to guns.<p>2) Even When criminals do use encrpytion - its used to facilitate killing rather than a direct way to kill people.<p>Someone cannot just throw a bunch of random paper filled with numbers and I will fall dead. There is a long chain of events between transmission of secret information to people being killed. If you give the world&#x27;s top two criminals access to encryption but lock them away in a plastic room - they cannot even theoretical hurt anyone.<p>TLDR : Guns are stupid and people who like guns are stupid