In a society where so many are armed itâ??s easy to come up with arguments as to why it would be crazy not to arm yourself. But a society where so many are armed is crazy itself. Joining in might or might not make you personally safer (I donâ??t want to get sidetracked by that) but it definitely and without a shadow of doubt makes your society as a whole more dangerous. Weâ??ve been here before but I donâ??t mind trying again. You have something like 35,000 firearms deaths a year while here in the UK we have two or three hundred. How does that make you feel safe? More than a million Americans have died as a result of firearms since the late sixties. Doesnâ??t that scare you? You have a larger proportion of your populace in prison than anywhere else in the world. Could there be a connection between that and your being awash with firearms? It just seems so obvious to me that the less guns there are around the less people are going to get shot dead with them. Homicide, suicide or accident.