Did guns or vaccines save more lives in 2021?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

There were something like 20,000 murders or criminal homicides in the US each year.   for guns to save 300000 lives a year, we would need to assume it prevented 94% of the murders or homicide that otherwise would have occurred.  it says were it not for guns the average american would have roughly 1 % chance of dying from murdered or homicide.   it also says guns are not only available for, but also successfully used for, self defense in 94% of the cases where the intended victims would otherwise have been killed.   do any of this pass the most cursory sniff test even for the US?    

Since I think Gary Kleck’s study overstates the life saving value of guns by only a slightly fewer orders of magnitude than Bishop Ussher’s study understates the age of the earth, I would say Covid-19 saved far more lives.

I don't know. I am Croatian, not American. I only know USA is a very high-crime country.

And yet the US is - by a whopping great margin - the world leader in the civilian ownership of firearms. I grasp that correlation isn't causation, but it's hard to ignore the fact that 400 million guns don't seem to be making Americans safer.

Boru