>>11 You're basing these statistics on the idea that the US is a country that has sufficient gun ownership, it is not. As well America happens to have a more violent culture, even moreso than other countries where everyone has guns. I mean if you even speak to people from other countries, they don't even get angry about their government as much even if they have things that are completely unacceptable like a 50 percent income tax. It's different culture that isn't dependent on gun ownership. In Switzerland every adult male is a member of the military, they not only own guns but are trained with them as well, and the crime rate is very low. Yet their culture isn't as violent as ours. Take into account a culture that is more prone to violence, and it's just common sense. If a person knows if they're going to try and commit a crime in the vicinity of people who will also have guns, they will be less likely to do it. Unfortunately there is nowhere in the US with sufficient gun ownership where a person knows that people around them will also have guns.
And how is protection against tyranny in government like something from a comic book? It was the specific design from the founding fathers, you could find countless quotes by Thomas Jefferson and other founding fathers speaking of the necessity of a government that is afraid of its citizens, of rebelling against tyranny in government, etc.. You've never lived under suffering or oppression but the founding fathers had just come from the direct experience of oppressive government and inevitably, even a government of their design that had fail safes against it, would become convoluted and corrupt, as ours has. Give it another 100 years, and unless I come into the office of president, there will be a revolt.