re: #35 Obdicut

The point is simply that, in the aggregate, guns make people less safe, not safer. I don’t think the above comment simply asserted this, unless you think it needed to actually link to the various studies that show, for example, that having a gun your house makes you more likely to be harmed by gun violence.

I think it’s disingenuous to say that people who cite statistics that show that guns make people less safe are denying that in some cases, a gun might be useful. Obviously in any statistical analysis you have events that fall outside the expected range.

The point is, simply, people would be safer (and thus, according to a certain moral calculus, better off) if they didn’t have guns, on average. And since you can’t tell in advance which people are going to turn out to be on the “lucky” side of the equation, the way to improve aggregate utility is to restrict guns.