> I also believe that the lack of firearms in the hands of everyday citizens encourages violent criminals to see them as a viable and relatively effective means

> I also believe that the lack of firearms in the hands of everyday citizens encourages violent criminals to see them as a viable and relatively effective means of coercion. In this story, who gets to play the US and who gets to play the USSR? Cause I want to be on the side that outspends the other on firearms. Unlike those wussy nations who don't have gun violence.