Gun Control & RKBA

which makes it easier to find the failings in the studies you seem to be so enamored of. These failings have been covered ad nauseam, including posts in this chain, so I won't go into detail. Suffice it to say that they don't hold water.

As for the anecdotal evidence - yes, it is limited to me. However, I would posit that during over 60 years of life on this planet, I have been in contact with thousands, if not tens of thousands, of people, both here and in 7 countries other than the U.S. Surely, if guns were so dangerous, there would be at least one firearms homicide that touched me or those that I know.

In the absence of such evidence, I will once again state that guns, by themselves, are not the homicide multiplier. There is more evidence to this - consider that rural households are more likely to have firearms in the house than urban dwellers, yet the highest rates of firearms crimes are in urban population centers. That is a pretty good indicator that the real culprit here is not the gun themselves, but the conditions under which the people committing the crimes are raised and taught.

I can tell you that in real life, the rural areas that I, as well as my friends and acquaintances from the same general background, grew up in, we were taught to respect others until given reason not to, to believe in the rule of law, and that public service was not meant to enrich yourself. I realize these views are now considered old-fashioned by some, but they seemed to work pretty well for quite some time, and still do in many areas of this country...