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The author also ignores barrier to entry.

He says guns are no more/less dangerous than bow and arrow when comparing the best bowman to anyone with a gun.

Yeah, the best bowman can fire an arrow every 5-6 seconds. But that random person off the street that is having a mental breakdown and wants to kill a bunch of people as a type of suicide? Yeah, he's not going to be a world class bowman.

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I'm not sure what that means when you net it out. Maybe mass shootings go down and regular violence goes up? Who knows?

The safest places still have some guns around. Enough that when something is happening, they arrive on the scene quickly. You could imagine those translating to skilled bowmen instead, and that's an interesting thought experiment, but it's hard to conclude much.

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