> Men commit more murders than women (in all places and times).
I know, 90-95% in fact! Which makes it interesting that so often people focus on racial issues, like the plight of white south african farmers, when there's a wayyyy larger correlation with violence of all kinds, and gender. An individual gun owner's reason for owning a gun may focus on some abstract interracial political violence, when they're much more likely to be murderer by a young, poor, man.
> Redefining safety as freedom is absurd.
If some level of safety is required in order to live, freedom is contingent on safety. When you're dead you can't own any guns.
I know, 90-95% in fact! Which makes it interesting that so often people focus on racial issues, like the plight of white south african farmers, when there's a wayyyy larger correlation with violence of all kinds, and gender. An individual gun owner's reason for owning a gun may focus on some abstract interracial political violence, when they're much more likely to be murderer by a young, poor, man.
> Redefining safety as freedom is absurd.
If some level of safety is required in order to live, freedom is contingent on safety. When you're dead you can't own any guns.