Clearly there's no one size fits all answer to any of this.
Some things strike me as glaringly obvious however.
Regarding guns... I think it's a given that armed homeowners do indeed present a deterrent to residential crime, especially in the area of break-ins, home invasions, burglaries and so on. When those same citizens take their legal guns out into the community, with conceal permits and such, the issue does get a tad more complicated however.
Regarding wack jobs... It really, really needs to be exponentially easier to have them involuntarily committed before they snap. You won't catch all (or even most) of them, but you'll get a hell of a lot of them this way. The Arizona and Colorado shooters come to mind here.
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