And this is where anecdotal evidence becomes such a deciding factor in these laws and conversations. Because I grew up in an upper class neighborhood where tgps and iPods being stolen from parked cars still warrants a short blurb in the paper, and later lived in NYC, and then Sydney, I've never experienced a situation where I thought my life or my sex would be taken from me - guns or no guns. To me, adding guns to the places I've loved would most definitely result in more crime, more accidentals, more everything.

In your case, these things are already a reality and the question is how do you stop it. I don't know if adding more guns to the situation would result in less crime or not but I can see how at some point it becomes a viable solution where there doesn't seem to be a solution.

The problem is a catch 22. If you take legal guns away, the bad guys are the only ones with guns, and bad things happen. But if everyone has guns, bad things happen. Unless you completely remove guns from the country (hey Australia did it) or arm every single person, there debate and turmoil will live on.

Sorry for spelling grammar and sentence structure. I'm on my phone.