re: #159 Mattand
Jamesfirecat had it right in that these data points of armed citizens swooping and saving the day are outliers. It starts getting into that nonsense of “an armed society is a safe society.”
As for God’s perfection: fucking bang up job he did in Sandy Hook. Perfectly sat by and let 20 kids ages 7 and under get slaughtered.
It’s called free will. We do not have a chip in our heads that just shuts us down when we decide to do evil. If you were God, would you put one in?