You still don't understand do you. Most of the time it's not even about using the gun, it's about the repercussions of having it. If you had two towns, republicanville and democratville side by side. In the first, everyone had guns and could use them freely if you broke in and in the second you had 0 guns and strict laws about fighting back. You want to go rob a house, which city do you go do it in.
Guns are the great equalizer. The perp doesn't have that extra assurance to go do whatever. Why do you think 99% attacks happen in gun free zones. The perp feels like they have the upper hand.
That extends to government. You can write all the pretty bullshit you want to justify it to yourself but at the end of the day, the fact is that it's not words on a paper that stop people from doing bad things, it's a superior counter-force by opposing parties that enforce those nice words on a paper. When through subversion all branches of government can be corrupted, the people then become, as a last resort, that opposing force to ensure accountability.
What about the grief they experienced when they got the diagnoses, or the grief when things took a turn for the worse? The difference is one is prolonged the other is a shock. Both cases they would have wished their family member was alive and well. But we're diverging for my point. Again the point I'm getting at is if we value life so dearly that a random, statistically improbably event causes people to go batshit crazy about what we need to do to prevent a loss of life, why isn't that same gusto being applied to more likely killers.
Do you not let your kid swim in the ocean because shark attacks? You used the wrong word, it's not normal, it's statistically improbable that a kid will get shot. The odds of getting attacked and killed by a shark are 1 in 3,748,067. From fireworks (1 in 340,733), lightning (1 in 79,746), drowning (1 in 1,134), a car accident (1 in 84).
Since 2010 there have been 133 incidences resulting in 160 deaths and 238 injuries.How many schools, how many children and how many hours of class. There have been more airplane incidences in that time so if you're worried that your kid is going to die in a hail of bullets, don't fly anywhere either.
