Gun Control & RKBA

the opposite is true:

Crime rates and murder rates have fallen at the same time gun ownership has fallen..

And while it HAS fallen it's still absurdly high... orders of magnitude higher than any similar country..

I'm not sure we should be patting ourselves on the back because our murder rate is no longer as high as Haiti's but is instead ONLY as high as Niger and Latvia.

The US has had more people die at the end of a gun in the last 15 years than it had die in WW2... as many people die at the end of a gun every 33 days as died on 9/11.

And gun owners - unlike drinkers - represent the minority of citizens... AND the use rate of death from alchohol is lower than or on par with similar countries...

It's just the murder rate and the gun violence that is exceptional about the US.. and as an American that lives somewhere without gun violence, where my kids don't see endless mass shooting on tv or train for school shooting emergencies, I can tell you that that freedom from violence and fear is much more freeing than any "right" to own unlimited weaponry to protect myself from others with unlimited weaponry.