Price tag for the second amendment

There is no question that the United States pays a price for the second amendment and for the general ease with which Americans can obtain and use firearms. The question which you rarely see is that of whether that price is worth paying compared to available alternatives.

You don't have to dig very far back into history books to find the answer to that one. The really great and gigantic fonts of mass murder over the past hundred and fifty years or thereabouts has been governments. particularly of the fascist and communist variety and the problem has arisen precisely due to people being disarmed and unable to defend themselves. The body counts of those murders number in the tens of millions and not the occasional dozen or so which you read about in the United States due to lunatic problems or terrorism.

The question is, what kinds of prices have nations like Germany, Russia, Ukraine, China, and Japan paid for NOT having a second amendment...