human
Would we all be safer if there were more guns everywhere?
assistant
Maybe. When you look at actual measures of safety and happiness, there are some countries with more guns in the population, and some countries with fewer guns. And there is no relationship between happiness or safety and the level of gun ownership. So there’s no evidence that more guns are better. And if we’re talking about just safety, rather than happiness, then the opposite seems to be true: where people have more guns, murder rates are higher, so it seems like more guns mean less safety, even though people have a perception that guns will protect them. Guns seem to be more of a threat than a protector.