edit- follow up question
“a well regulated militia”. since the amendment was passed, and since the US has a military, has there even been a militia? would you trust your random neighbours loading up and marching against something? or would you expect law enforcement to crush it?
seems like the amendment has become “the locals can have guns and murder each other”. Nothing to with a “militia”; or defending your country.
Interesting stuff. Thanks. It seems the biggest problem is that it isn’t something being tracked with any kind of consistency or accuracy, which is what I suspected. I’m not sure it’s something that’s even possible to accurately track. Just showing someone you have a gun that deters them from committing a crime isn’t likely to be reported, for example.
The agreement seems to be that it’s still a lot less that using a gun as the aggressor, though. The stats on suicide by guns is pretty horrifying, too.
All up, I prefer living in a country with strong gun regulations and very few guns.