
The myth that it is significant or somehow an independently positive thing and not just a positive artifact of an artificial problem we’ve created for ourselves. We’re the only developed country with such a gun violence issue and that is because we created the issue through our absurd gun laws. The fact that some good guy with a gun stops a bad guy with a gun every once in a while is not proof that guns benefit people, just proof that people can still act morally in a system that failed them