Concealed carrier stops assault, robbery with handgun

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Competing with anecdotes is pointless.  We'll never know in most individual situations what would have happened if the gun weren't present when it is used for a good result or if it wasn't present when it is used for a bad result. (The exception being that accidental deaths or injuries obviously wouldn't have happened if there was no gun present.)  But a simple look at the statistics for the US shows that in states with lax gun laws, more people die per capita from guns, more die per capita from suicide (from all methods), and more die from domestic violence (from all methods).  If the sole basis of whether strict or lax gun laws are better is whether people are safer overall, then the evidence clearly is in favor of strict gun laws.  The only logical arguments I can see in favor of lax gun laws is a desire to keep hunting from being adversely affected (which is an argument that only affects hunting rifles) and that they somehow contribute to our liberty (which is an argument that only affects military arms).  In neither case do those arguments favor having widespread availability of handguns.