Swampgirl and I had brief discussion on owning guns- spawned from this blog post.

SG asked me if I thought all gun owners were nutso. I most definitely do not. I created this Venn diagram to show where I think the problem lies:



I understand the arguments for gun ownership, "if guns are criminalised, only criminals will have guns" - "a well armed militia, to take up arms against tyrannical government" etc, etc.

The problem is, that these statements are emotive- based on gut feeling and not backed by any stats or logic.

Do you think that anarchic countries in Africa are well served by a "citizen militia?" and if a criminal comes into your home with a gun to rob you- do your chances of survival go up if you have a gun in the house?

In the VA school massacre, do people honestly think that if students were packing heat- that it would have ended better? Life is not a cop show.