The prohibitionists have yet another truthiness problem:

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9. You can debate all you want about how many angels can dance on the head of firing pin...

but the fact is we have a gun obsession unlike any other country--

I’ve been researching gun violence—and what can be done to prevent it—in the U.S. for 25 years. The fact is that if NRA claims about the efficacy of guns in reducing crime were true, the U.S. would have the lowest homicide rate among industrialized nations instead of the highest homicide rate (by a wide margin).

The U.S. is by far the world leader in the number of guns in civilian hands. The stricter gun laws of other “advanced countries” have restrained homicidal violence, suicides and gun accidents—even when, in some cases, laws were introduced over massive protests from their armed citizens.

http://www.newsweek.com/gun-control-what-we-can-learn-other-advanced-countries-379105