European743-  Your murder rate includes all weapons (cars, knives, guns, baseball bats, etc.).  Of greater interest is that for 18 years, as gun ownership in the US has increased, crime, including the murder rate, has decreased.  Your failed logic is that if we restrict legal gun ownership, murder would be eliminated (...more

Absent this discussion is the cost to live and the level of wages.  The argument assumes that the income level of the individual exceeds living expenses by at least 3%.  However, after Federal Taxes, Social Security, Medicare, Local Income taxes, and mandatory health insurance, the employee hasn't even begun to pay for...more