Reply #72: You provide no evidence for your claim.

[GreenStormCloud]

we know that the first element ALWAYS increases the total of any sum,

No, you don't know that. That which can be claimed without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. And the fact remains that the number of guns in the populace has increaced greatly while crime has gone down. Further, violent crime in the US, except for murder, is much lower than in other industrialized countries. Especially our rate of burglary of occupied dwellings is way lower. Criminals here have good reason to fear their victims, and they have to be very careful in victim selection.

BTW - You are assuming that the guns/crime curve is linear, or that the slope is always positive. Instead the slope may change from positive to negative. Inother words, the curve may be shaped like a hill, with a peak and then a falling curve.