(February 20, 2017 at 11:28 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Guns have a civilizing effect?
NZ has VERY strict gun laws and, while there is some gun crime, and several people have been shot and killed in the past few years by armed police (and not the entire police force is armed, either), it is very high up on the safest countries to live in.
I think they made number one last year.
The mythical "Good Guy With A Gun" is preached far and wide here. It causes people to go armed when there's no need to do so and increases the need for a "Rational Guy Without A Gun" to try and defuse a situation where the GGWAG is about to open fire without a clear idea of what's going on.