Alan: Yes, the possession of a gun will sometimes save an innocent person's life.
But in general, the more guns sloshing around a society, the more people killed or grievously injured by them.
Comparing these two phenomena side-by-side is to place Mount Everest next to the neighborhood hill you sledded on as a six year old.
Conservatives are motivated by anecdote.
Liberals are motivated by scientifically-determined truth which derives from statistical measures using very large populations.
In these very large populations, anecdotes comprise a pinch of spice in a vat of soup made with slabs of meat and gobs of potato.
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