In NYC, theoretically only the police and the bad guys have guns. I have always found it amazing when a criminal is shot while commiting a crime, sues, and WINS sometimes millions. The process takes years so that his original victim, who usually has not filed a civil suit because the criminal is penniless, can not turn around and claim a share of the booty. So the low life lives on millions, though he is crippled, and the upstanding citizen, also crippled, lives on disability insurance.

I now live in Maine and still don't own a gun. But the bad guys don't know that...