More guns. Less crime. Simple as that.
Absolutely true, and statistically valid everywhere you care to look.
Liberals don't care to look, though. They thrive on emotion, not reason, and desire not freedom, but control.
Have you noticed that the reflexive left-wing response to a crime committed with a gun is often no different than their response to an episode of self-defense with a gun?
They tend to attack the
gun, ignoring both the intentions of the actor and the nature of the act. "He (the criminal/lunatic) shouldn't have had access to a gun" vs. "He (the victim) shouldn't have
used a gun".
Firearms have no intentionality. They cannot determine their own purpose. A gun can be used to commit a crime or to prevent one from taking place, and it is human intention, not some mystical power inherent in a firearm that determines the purpose which it is made to serve.
But Progressives (essentially being mystics and not rationalists) live in terminal fear of everything they cannot control, thus seeking government not as a safeguard against external threats, but as insulation from life's unpleasant realities, and inevitably: against anything they just don't like.