30th May 2007, 4:16 PM
Far, FAR more people would die (or do die) from accidents or from someone getting their hands on a gun "for protection" than are ever saved by someone having a gun on them when they are attacked. This is said every time there is a shooting, and it's completely crazy. Innumerable accidents, misfires, and people taking a gun they know is there and doing something violent with it compared to a relative handful of cases where someone was actually protected by having a gun on them? It's obvious which is the better way.