The comment we are responding to: > Sadly the people they confront in those european countries are significantly less armed than your average american. Assumi

The comment we are responding to: > Sadly the people they confront in those european countries are significantly less armed than your average american. Assuming that some reasonable percentage of "confrontations" occur outside the home, if you're being confronted while commuting to work, it's not always relevant that your wife owns a gun. It only matters whether you personally own & carry. > Not sure your point. > I guess I'm not sure what your point was. I've honestly been doing a pretty solid job being intentional and respectful to all views here. I don't think it's much intellectual work to try to do the best you can at imagining some reasonable point that can be made with the "32%" statistic and acknowledging some of those likely "points" in your post. It would feel much less dismissive, and show that you at least tried to figure out some points that I might be making while maybe still asking for clarification or confirmation. It demonstrates intellectual honesty.