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.

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You are safer carrying a gun in a country where most people are allowed to carry a gun. No you don't need an arsenal for dgu. I have one because it's fun and happens to be a damn good asset that doesn't depreciate .

You can just buy Rheinmetal shares, for that.

I prefer to live in a country, where I'm safe and nobody around me is walking around with a gun. Walking around, strapped, as if you live in a war zone, is just confirmation that you really do live in a war zone.

People in genuinely safe places simply don't feel that urge because guns aren't toys.

We don't walk around with swords, either.

I'd rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it. I prefer that for all individuals.

Scary inanimate objects are scary

Oh yes. Your normalcy bias has confirmed your safety

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_Germany

The USA is the second-safest large country in its hemisphere. Context matters...

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.