I actually had a very similar conversation up in the great white north of Canadanavia, where the second amendment and the right to self preservation isn't a thing.

The problem with the gun control debate is that people refuse to think about it rationally. To much emotion and not enough facts on either side of the debate. The other issue with the debate is the skewed stats. When gang violence is included the mass shooting stats and people read the stats its automatically assumed that this is at a school/mall/church ect. not some group of gangs shooting each other up.

Essentially just looking at raw data takes all the intellectual honesty out of the debate, context is important. Now everything becomes a matter of opinion.

This scares me because truth has no opinion or emotion but society in 2018 doesn't seem to think that way. All you have to do is turn on the news to see that.