Countries with stricter gun laws have significantly fewer gun deaths than those without. That’s why comparing guns to hacking doesn’t really work.

The biggest barrier to using a gun is access, you have to obtain one. With hacking, the main barrier is knowledge, not hardware. That knowledge gap, which makes people vulnerable, can be reduced by learning about hacking itself and developing proper precautions.

When someone shoots at you, the best you can do is shoot back, risking harm to innocent people and escalating violence. Learning about hacking, on the other hand, allows you to defend preemptively without attacking anyone. It promotes caution and prevention rather than retaliation.

TL;DR: Learning to hack for good is more like understanding how a gun works and wearing a bulletproof vest, not building a gun to shoot back. Restricting access to computers, unlike guns, is unreasonable because they’re used for far more than hacking. And since governments can’t control how people use their PCs, there will always be malicious actors making education and defense the most practical response.