I think armed citizens can be a tenuous curb on violence but that still wouldn't solve the roots of violence. A civilized society with low levels of poverty, g

I think armed citizens can be a tenuous curb on violence but that still wouldn't solve the roots of violence. A civilized society with low levels of poverty, good economic mobility, a good education system, a fair and effective judicial system and no drug war would mean there'd be less people committing violent acts in the first place. When you're at the point where an armed citizen has to regularly thwart crime, you probably have major unresolved socioeconomic problems. Not that I'm against a citizen's right to bear arms. Just saying that the goal should be to have less people motivated to commit crimes in the first place, not a bunch of would be criminals calculating whether or not they're going to encounter armed resistance.