text: Good point.  So much for the argument that we need to have armed people everywhere to 'protect us' from active shooters.  
  
  In the US there are around 12,000 homicides by guns per year.  That's a rate of .0039%, substantially less than your Alaska traffic crash number (note: your math is wrong).
  
  Seems to me that the gun nuts should be far more concerned about buckling their seat belts than packing heat for self protection (or to heroically protect their neighbors).