[frongpik]

Before curbing the "gun epidemic" I'd look up how many lives are saved vs how many are unrightfully taken. A proxy for the first number is the number of burglaries - about 1.5 millions per year. A proxy for the second is about 10 thousands - all gun related deaths excluding suicides and internal gang disputes.

[markc]

Burglaries isn’t even remotely a proxy for “lives saved”.

[mgarfias]

CDC estimates 500k defensive gun uses (DGU) per year. Others put that number up over 2M.

Even by the smallest estimates it is a non trivial number.