One quick note on point 10: the question of whether owning a gun makes you safer isn't a politically contentious one -- it is a knowable fact in the realm of e

One quick note on point 10: the question of whether owning a gun makes you safer isn't a politically contentious one -- it is a knowable fact in the realm of empiricism. Whether individuals should be allowed to own guns, without regard to whatever risk there might be, is the politically contentious one. But the mere question of safety isn't political (how things should be), it's observable (how things are).