Friends or relatives are the most likely killers. This myth is usually …

Friends or relatives are the most likely killers. This myth is usually based on two claims: that 53% of murder victims are killed by either relatives or acquaintances and that anyone could be a murderer. … What’s not made clear is that acquaintance murder primarily includes drug buyers killing pushers, cabdrivers killed by first-time customers, game members killing other gang members, prostitutes kill by their clients, and so on.

Wall Street Journal, November 11, 1998

Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the …

Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation …. Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. James Madison
The Federalist Papers No. 46 at 243-244.(1751-1836)