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The latter strategy doesn't seem to work out that well for the USA because it results in regular people using the munitions on other regular people.

To defend themselves, hundreds of thousands to millions of times per year.

> indicate that defensive uses of guns by crime victims are far more common than offensive uses by criminals

That's literally the worst case scenario. Victims escalating the violence.

Are you saying that people defending themselves is worse than killing?