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The overwhelming majority of firearm deaths are suicides. Following that is gang on gang shootings. Murders outside of gang BS are comparatively few, and fewer still are deaths caused by carelessness. You are statistically more likely to die in your bathtub, shower, or swimming pool (not even combined, choose any one) than to be killed by a gun.
With that out of the way, everyone who is not a felon, abuser, drug addict, illegal alien, or a confirmed danger to the public, should have at least one gun. As has been said many a time before now, an armed society is a polite society. If everyone on the street COULD have a pistol on them, then mugging people becomes a bit too risky. Why should women and the elderly be expected to outrun or outfight a criminal who could bench press them? Should everyone sit around waiting to become another statistic? There have been several times where I had needed a gun, and didn't have one. Didn't end well, either. Even my local police explicitly told me that they prefer the law-abiding public to not only be armed, but to leave them with only one side of the story in the case of a break-in/mugging/home invasion.
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