We have a right to defend ourselves

Regardless of whether anyone else in the world believes guns keep America more or less safe, you are free to decide for yourself whether having a gun will make you, individually, more safe. Pages of international gun-crime statistics offer very little protection if an armed robber breaks into your home in the middle of the night. Bullets go through paper like it’s nothing.
Pages of new gun-control laws similarly offer only paper protection. By definition, criminals don’t obey laws. I