An Excellent Question

The argument of the NRA and all their right-wing lackeys is that the more guns there are in circulation, the safer the American people will be. That argument has never made sense, and has been disproven by studies. But probably the best argument against the silly proposition that more guns equals more safety is the question above. How can it be that more guns make things safer, when the United States has the most guns of any developed country (both in the total number of guns and in guns per capita the population), and yet has the highest rate of gun deaths (both murder and suicide) of any other developed nation? The truth is that a gun being kept in a home significantly raises the chances that someone in that home will die (either through murder or suicide). And the same thing is true of a country -- the more guns, the more gun deaths.