Guns Need To Be Everywhere

There are no good arguments for the proliferation of guns in the United States (see chart below), but some are worse than others.

The reader who sent me this seems to think that other countries don’t attack us because of our high rate of gun ownership, rather than our military presence and its $750 billion annual budget. He appears to believe that an invasion from, say China and its 2+ million active duty soldiers, would be met, not by our own military personnel with rocket-propelled grenades and attack helicopters, but by a bunch of largely obese redneck Trump-supporting Capitol-stormers with AR-15s.

That’s just sad.