Reply #37: You are absolutly correct.

[Tim01]

The crime rates and violence rates are not affected by the presence or lack of guns hardly at all. I've looked at the numbers. In the big picture, guns just don't matter. They don't get that many more people killed, or that many more people saved. Where they make a difference is to the INDIVIDUAL who chooses to carry a gun for self defense. That person has a much much better chance of surviving a violent encounter. The shop owner that has a gun kills the criminal instead of him getting killed himself. The girl in the parking is one of the FEW who prevails against 4 guys.

Guns don't do shit for crime compared to the economy and poverty.

So why do you want to start a crusade against guns? Or do you just have a personal hatred of them?

Rail against something that matters.

Guns don't do shit for crime rates compared to the economy and poverty.