Would you be more or less safe?

[rahl]

You sure?

Your first problem: I've made no such claim.

Second: My shovel's at home.

Then get out of the backhoe. You can't even see daylight any longer.

Meanwhile, the claim that "more guns = more homicides" is demonstrably false.

 

[RF667799]

Then taxes would be raised in your scenario

No. The living standards of prisoners would be reduced.

 

[vegas giants]

No. The living standards of prisoners would be reduced.

And taxes would need to be raised

 

[Lucky 1]

I would feel more safe with more guns in the hands of good people. The only way to defend against a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.

 

[mrdeltoid]

If, by chance, the federal government required gun ownership with compulsory conceal and carry, would you feel more safe, less safe or other?

It would probably be safer. Right now the armed criminal has the advantage.