A lot of crime is stopped without guns, too, tho. And DGU doesn't require someone to own an entire arsenal. One can usually only shoot one gun at a time.
Americans own crazy amounts of handguns, but other countries actually have lots of households with firearms. Especially, once you consider how peaceful and low-crime most other countries are, in comparison. Americans aren't safer because of their guns.
The USA is the second-safest large country in its hemisphere. Context matters...
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Yeah, after Canada. That's the context.
There are 35 countries in the Americas...
And many are hellholes full of people with guns.
In the hellholes, most of those guns are illegal.
But the guns that do the most killing are always government guns.