Hans pointed out:
“It’s a clear fact i’m told that in the US., (too)many people die by gunfire…and i think there is a correlation between the number of guns per square mile and the number of casualties by these guns in any country.”
Having spent a summer in Germany as a high school freshman, I was surprised at the availability of alcohol for kids. My hosts explained in their society, they make it nothing extraordinary and readily available. That way, kids are able to understand it in the proper context and learn to handle it responsibly, rather than not knowing how to handle it.
It’s remarkable that the same intelligent Europeans who recognized that distorted supply/demand environments cause undesirable outcomes would ignore the same dynamic with self-defense weapons. Make something illegal and you’ll often have very skewed outcomes, usually with those you want the least to have access instead having an excessive supply, while those who should be trusted with the resource being unable to attain it without great difficulty.
