Gun Control & RKBA

The problem is that the number of persons murdered with guns is greatly in excess of the average for prosperous nations which maintain a civil order within their borders. Persons in the United States are five times more likely to be murdered than are persons in Germany, on a per capita basis, and this would true roughly for comparison with any developed country.

The goal is reducing the number of murders till it is at a rate more or less matching the average for a developed country.

The difference in the rates of murder owe mostly to the wide circulation of firearms in this country, relative to other developed countries.

The ready availability of a device which makes it far easier to kill on a whim, to kill with very little physical effort, which requires no more than a moment's emotional heat and a twitch of a finger to kill, suggests itself as a reason for the greater lethality of our society.

Policy in this question ought to be made in light of sound analysis, rather than by the fantasies of fetishists and hobbyists and people who mistake popular entertainments for descriptions of reality, all deliberately cultivated for profit both pecuniary and political by a cartel of manufacturers and a cabal of politicians.