re: #5 Charles Johnson
America has 90 guns for every 100 people.
That’s nuts.
It wouldn’t be a problem is 90 people each had one gun for every 100. It’s that those ninety are concentrated in the hands of (something like) 10 people for every hundred.
Personally, I think this kind of debunks the idea that an armed society is a polite society.
The idea that each home should have a shot gun for self-defense (or rifle as in Switzerland) as a deterrant or whatever —doesn’t work when those 90 guns are not in 90 homes.