Gun Control & RKBA

The backgrounds are much more diverse; racially, income-wise, class, nationally, politically. Some had criminal records. I graded them all.

Frankly, I think many people are overly fearful because violence is the sine qua non for what remains of traditional "news." Our national crime rates have been falling for over 20 years, yet the number of guns, and likely the number of people who have guns, has gone up tremendously during this same time. And the number of kids (-15 yoa) killed in gun accidents has plunged to maybe 65 A YEAR. Like it or not most "gun crimes" are concentrated in small clusters within metro areas. Put another way, you can walk the streets of Miami or Memphis with little chance of being a crime victim. If you avoid the hot spots. (I am told there are apps you can download which show scatter charts of crime overlaying city streets. They can be quite startling.)

Incidentally, one of the many documents generated from the mass murder at the University of Texas, 1966, relates the return fire by students who either retrieved their deer rifles from residences, or merely took them from pick-up headache racks. One of those shooting back was said to be a professor, firing from his classroom building. He evidently kept his rifle on campus, perhaps for a quick getaway deer hunt.