text: Again Neil, read for content. Nowhere did I claim "more guns" were an answer, nor that I am "ok with the status quo." I simply pointed out the fact that increasing the number of guns, and legal public carry, in the US does not correlate with an increase in the levels of crime nor violence nor accidents. In fact the correlation is inverse.
  
  I've also noted that gun control cannot be shown, in 40+ years of US data, to have had any positive effects on our crime or violence rates. Thus, wasting limited resources on failed policies is asinine, particularly since we actually have solid data on the behavioral correlates to crim violence.
  
  As for other nations, as you apparently continue to fail to grasp, your cherry-picked countries had lower rates than us -prior- to their 20thC gun control laws & that gun control cannot be shown to have modified their overall homicide & crime rate trends to any statistically significant degree.
  
  But, by all means continue to expose your one-note ignorance.