more guns=a safer america

The experiment has been tried. During the era when an insult could easily devolve into a duel, the threat of personal armed conflict to the death did not make society so polite that duels did not occur. Quite the contrary. Nor was duelling much of a deterrent to the bully who was skilled in handling a weapon.

More States Allowing Guns in Bars and Restaurants

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/04/us/04guns.html?_r=1&hp

http://www.ajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/georgia-governor-signs-campus-gun-measure/f02kSvtstlOhpUhniiyxxO/

There is at least one local news story every couple weeks around here of some guy in his 50s or 60s getting in an argument with someone over a lawnmower and shooting them or arguing with someone at an auto parts store on a warranty for an alternator which turns into a robbery when they brandish a gun to get their way. Sadly true.

Would you get a Darwin awards like situation where the stupid were wiped out or the reverse?

xp Replace "lawnmower" with "game of cards" and "auto parts store" with "barn dance," and you've basically got Charles Reznikoff's 1934 work Testimony, a book-length poetic chronicle assembled from legal records of the United States covering the period 1885-1915. I read it a couple of years ago and was chilled by the feeling of contemporaneity that those episodes possess (in contrast to the progress made in other areas e.g. child laborers killed in mine accidents, which also happens a fair bit within its pages)