..And lest you find yourself needing one when it's too late. When the SHTF is not the time to go shopping for anything, let alone a gun(E-gads, I just wrote that there wasn't a good time to go shopping).

Die of something that cannot be cured by modern medicine, not by something you have the power to control or prevent.

Quite so, ma'am.

I'm glad that you noticed my little corner of the blogosphere. It's actually supposed to be about science and technology, but I seem to have distracted myself due to righteous indignation. Happens all the time, I'm sure...

I live in Brazil where just today as I was in a supermarket I saw a magazine with an article that claimed that Brazil has the highest per capita homicide rate in the world. That does not surprise me as violence in the two major cities of São Paulo (pop 23 million+) and Rio de Janeiro (pop 11 million+ is extremely high due to the almost total control of major areas of the cities by drug gangs. What I find interesting is that gun laws in Brazil are strict. Gun ownership is legally possible, but heavily regulated. All guns must be registered and carrying guns legally is almost impossible for the average citizen. Research shows that about 5% of all Brazilian households own a firearm. (http://www.armaria.com.br/soc_desarmada2.htm) That is, the general population of Brazil is unarmed, and faces a well armed and organized criminal element. Hence the result.

The conclusion? Maybe if more citizens in Brazil had guns, then there would be less murders of innocents by criminals.