I think I do not really have a very strong personal opinion on whether the right to be armed should remain, because I dont live there. All I am saying is that people ought not close their eyes to the fact that this right has a cost. The right to own and bear guns has a value to many people certainly, and on a societal level there is a human cost.
To argue about whether the widespread ownerships of guns increases death is really just re-hashing old ground... I think if you look at the number of people who were shot unlawfully in the US last year, you can simply take a view. If you really believe if no one held guns all those people would have been stabbed or bludgeoned to death instead - then "there is no case to answer" as such.
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