Again, this narrative is driven largely by the media that profits from these kinds of issues. I did the math years ago, but if I recall, your odds of dying from a mass shooting, is .00000057%. That doesn't justify taking everyone's guns away. Sorry. I know mass shootings are sensational, but the reality is they really are not a threat to the American citizenry as a whole. People just can't wrap their brains around 350,000,000 people, so when one event makes headlines and dominates the news cycle for weeks, people mistakenly inflate the risk of the event happening to them. The bottom line is that it's just not a serious threat, but people will foolishly give up a freedom for their safety, even if it's based on a false narrative. Just for reference, that number is pretty close to Canada's deaths from mass shootings (I want to say it was .00000038%), and they have massive gun regulation.

If we include gun crime, your odds of dying from a gun in this country is .00003%. That's still incredibly rare. I know this is going to offend progressive sensibilities, but if you take out gang on gang violence, that number drops significantly. The best way to improve that number is more policing, so it appears we're in a bit of a pickle, especially since the people who tell progressives how to think are trying to defund that. Btw, while we're on the topic, murder rates are going up for the first time in decades. I believe it went up by 6k in 2020. The "defund the police" movement is responsible for more deaths than every mass shooting in the last 20 years, but I'm sure progressives believe that number would just disappear with no guns in the picture.

There are no studies that look how many lives are saved by owning guns, but I would guess it offsets the risk all by itself. There is an estimation that Americans use their guns 1.2 million times a year to stop a crime. That's over 3k crimes a day stopped by legal carry. Think about that for a second. Keep in mind that most times a gun is drawn, it is not fired.

All this and we haven't even had to mention that it gives the government pause, which is a sufficient reason in it's own right.

The argument against gun ownership is weak. It relies on comparing the US to countries with different crime rates, policing and judicial strategies, poverty levels, and homogeneity. They literally don't have an apples to apples comparison, but this is true for most of their ideas. All narrative, no substance.

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