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I lived and breathed "statistics" for my entire career. Statistics are meaningless without insight into the logic of your statistical argument. Extending your argument to it's extreme, one could argue that fewer Americans would be killed in wars if we Americans gave up our weapons and lived in hope that everyone else would treat us nicely. Statistically that may be true, but we'd be living as slaves to whatever nation(s) maintained arms! If you had suggested to Jefferson, Washington, Madison, or Franklin that citizens should trust their leaders to always obey the Constitution, they'd have at best perceived you as naive. Those founders all agreed that the most important trait of a civilized nation was the adherence of the populace to noble principles of behavior! If you lived in a neighborhood in which every other man was twice your size, twice as strong, and 100 times more likely to take what they want, you might want some means of self defense that would compensate for all the other shortcomings. Otherwise, you'd be nothing more than a constant victim. For those who'd take away our right to bear arms and defend ourselves from those who'd harm us, I say this: "If you take away our Constitutional right to bear arms, and if a citizen is murdered because he had no way to defend himself, YOU are an accessory to that murder, and should be tried and convicted for that crime!"
I lived and breathed "statistics" for my entire career. Statistics are meaningless without insight into the logic of your statistical argument. Extending your argument to it's extreme, one could argue that fewer Americans would be killed in wars if we Americans gave up our weapons and lived in hope that everyone else would treat us nicely. Statistically that may be true, but we'd be living as slaves to whatever nation(s) maintained arms! If you had suggested to Jefferson, Washington, Madison, or Franklin that citizens should trust their leaders to always obey the Constitution, they'd have at best perceived you as naive. Those founders all agreed that the most important trait of a civilized nation was the adherence of the populace to noble principles of behavior!
If you lived in a neighborhood in which every other man was twice your size, twice as strong, and 100 times more likely to take what they want, you might want some means of self defense that would compensate for all the other shortcomings. Otherwise, you'd be nothing more than a constant victim. For those who'd take away our right to bear arms and defend ourselves from those who'd harm us, I say this: "If you take away our Constitutional right to bear arms, and if a citizen is murdered because he had no way to defend himself, YOU are an accessory to that murder, and should be tried and convicted for that crime!"
