My main point was those types of "everybody needs a gun" articles omit all the deaths that occur because more people do own guns. Why leave those gun deaths out?
I don't believe I left anything out. That 12,000 number includes both gun murders and accidental deaths.
It not that everybody needs a gun, but that everyone should have the
option --every adult-- to own a gun for self-defense. And short of banning guns, I advocated laws to force them to own and store guns responsibly, kept in safes or gun-locks when not carried as a concealed firearm.
I think what I proposed is pretty reasonable, and I've never heard anyone from the Left or Right propose it.
