Look here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States_by_stateSeems like the evidence is contrary. Higher gun ownership generally correlates to lower gun violence.
Look at this for example:
District of Columbia: 3.6% gun ownership and 16.5 gun murders, highest gun murder per capita in the USA and lowest gun ownership
Hmm, whos right here?
Yeah, still me genius. Correlation is not causation. By the way, I'd sure love to see one of you address this point:
In response to the everybody should be armed argument, people should simply ask the gun activist whether or not they support Iran getting a nuclear weapon. By the logic that the gun activist applies, everybody is safer when everybody is armed, and this would translate to support for Iranian weapons; in reality, these people almost always say that Iran isnt a rational actor and that giving them a nuke endangers everybody around them. When they say this, you should simply tell them that not every gun owner is rational and that unrestricted gun ownership is the micro-equivalent to letting every country have nukes.
Fuckin cognitive dissonance man, everywhere you go. So irritating.
The USA has invaded 22 countries in the last 20 years... of those 22, how many had nuclear weapons? 0.
How many deaths have resulted from these invasions? the government won't release figures but its estimated at somewhere between 10 and 20 million...
Oh and in case you missed it check out funtotry's response... might help you sort your dissonance out, if thats too uncomfortable for you, maybe you'd feel more at home posting on the fox news or cnn forums?