Quote Originally Posted by .blank cd View Post
If a little extra regulation saved one human life, would you consider that a success?
Depends how measureable that regulation is.

I would say Welfare is, at this point of our society, a huge failure but as a former benefactor and product of welfare, I can say that I'm a success story of it. Still wouldn't consider it a success. More to the point, more regulation does not, by default, make it (the regulation) a success by saving a human life but rather the overall benefactors of the regulation. You would have to be able to measure how the regulation 'saved' lives versus the many more variables where it didn't 'save' lives. Then the outliers where guns prevented deaths.

In thinking more about it, it almost seems like we're attacking the wrong problem. I'll have to think about it some more and come back...