JD, for every instance you can state I can reference ten where guns save lives. In fact, your freedom and way of life is courtesy of American guns. A simple thank you would have been enough. Your welcome, by the way.
But this is a straw man argument that gun owners love to get sucked into. Even IF a extra xx number of people have died because of guns it's a price well worth paying.
A nut with a AK can kill 10, 25, maybe 100 people. Horrible to be sure. But only a State can kill millions. And that is the ONLY reason we have the 2nd amendment.
History has proved without doubt that whenever a people are disarmed, tyranny follows in short order.
We are now in a unusual part of history because the guns of America have kept the much of usual tyranny in check since WW2. Again, a simple thanks would have been nice.
Again, it goes back to power and who has it. This has not changed in all of human history. Nor will it ever change. You may be fine with the State having the ultimate power in Canada. We uncivilized yanks much rather prefer the power defused among The People.
Who knows, once we brutish thugs become more mature we can finally actually make something of ourselves. Until then we will have to limp around being the richest, strongest, most generous, freeest people who have ever walked the earth. And no, we did not because this way by accident.
Now, can we please get back to loving each other and talking 4R or do I have to shoot somebody?