There are
2 million incarcerated individuals.
They don't claim to be afraid of citizens who are armed--at least not in my personal life experiences and not in any interviews I've been on either side of.
What they will say is that if they meet an individual with a weapon that person is more likely to be harmed when the violence escalates--and the numbers bear that out.
Also, fully auto weapons aren't illegal. [surprised Lebell didn't catch that one--chalk it up to being tired of correcting all the misconceptions or maybe just didn't see it
] But they are heavily regulated and, I understand, very expensive.