re: #139 watching you tiny alien kittens are

Too bad that chart does not go further towards today, the fact is that violent crimes are way down across the board. Lower than they have been in over 30 years, yet to listen to some people the country is going to hell and roving gangs of homicidal youth are taking over the country.

Firearms are used to protect people every day, and quite often by private citizens. As I tried to say above, I think it is dishonest to compare modern firearms to more tradition weapons like knives and clubs when it comes to murder.

Some one on that twitter thread said that an NFL linebacker could have killed his girlfriend in any number of ways.

The problem with counterfactual musing is that when you change the variables, you have uncertainty…and with most other means of murder (possibly with the exception of secret poisoning), the girlfriend would have had a much better chance of escape and survival.