Public policy lives in the home for us law abiding types. We have laws to comply with that overlay our decision tree about home safety and defense. Or we risk jail. That makes public policy and personal decision inseparable.

Low information gun owners as a concept is a lot more dangerous than low information voters. And your statistic is a small amount of information all by itself. It needs a lot more filled in, which might include what I pointed out in #45. That stat is one point of information among many and should be regarded as such. The policy or personal decision does not start and stop at that stat. Most Americans don’t own guns at all. Many gun owners bought them for hunt and sport not defense. Hopefully with good policy fewer people will own guns for the wrong reason or negligently. Very few people apply for CCW as compared to the overall population. So your stat is already significantly reflected in gun ownership rates. One way to reduce defensive gun purchases is to reduce crime rates. Maybe that’s the best way in the long term.