Guns are making our country a very dangerous land, they say.
Guns kill people, they repeat.
It's like the frontier days out there all over again, one babble-breath said. Listening to these fugitives from fact, one would think that the nefarious pistol in the drawer next to me is actually lying in wait for me to open the drawer so it can jump out and shoot me. A few years back, I published a well circulated paper detailing the difference in violent crime between the United States and four European countries where guns are closely regulated. If these numbers are taken on their face value, the United States is truly more dangerous than these four European countries. However, a great deal of the crime in the United States is committed by street gang punks and other riffraff in the inner-city.