What do you think about gun control?

[The Grand Nudger]

Not necessarily. A man enters a home intending to kill all six people living there. Instead, one of the people gets to a gun and manages to shoot and kill the intruder. One person dead vs. (potentially) six people dead. Not a wash.

I meant in the sense of people getting shot.  A successful civilian shooting still adds another shooting to the numbers in the best of cases.

I think a much more likely is 300k a year stop an incident. Burglars and rapists detered for instance.

When I had CCW classes here at my place I heard more than a few stories of guns preventing bad shit from happening - and in each case a shot was not fired. Just the presence of the gun was deterrent enough. Saved lives? In one case - it was quite likely.

But again - the media doesn' t print horrible things averted....

It's more likely that the presence of a person in the home, and not a gun, thwarts a burglary.   By and large, I don't think there's much opposition to people shooting home invaders.  I suppose we might get around to addressing the risks of organizing our society that way when we get the mass shootings at schools, and nightclubs, and parking lots under control. You know my opinion. I think ideologically motivated gun owners are going to reject and resist even the most routine measures applied to every other facet of our lives until their opposition blanket bans as a reactionary act.