> Not just from the government, but also from your average criminal. And yet the US has one of the highest homicide rates for developed countries in the world,

> Not just from the government, but also from your average criminal. And yet the US has one of the highest homicide rates for developed countries in the world, while sporting the highest (by far) firearm per capita in the world. So something with that nice argument you, and others, have is not working.