@Mame,
Mame wrote:You think your personal enjoyment of owning a gun overrides some nutcase shooting up a school?
Of course. And I'm right to think it, because it does.
I also think that my personal enjoyment of private automobile ownership overrides a terrorist plowing a car into a crowd at high speed.
Mame wrote:I wonder how many times a gun was used to protect a home vs all the criminal uses of guns.
What does it matter? It's worth it no matter what the numbers say.