Anon: You're right. Dick: Per capita we are safer here than a lot of countries. We are currently (using 2010 numbers) at number 33. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate Robert: A murder is a murder regardless of the instrument of death. See above for the per capita rate of homicides. Your problem with guns is that it gives the weakest among us the ability to protect themselves. Thus, they have no need for those who feel superior to provide for them. That destroys the left who need to be lording over others to feel validated in themselves.