Apparently nobody but me read past your first paragraph.
Yeah.
Many seem to have stopped reading at the title. The point of the title was that there is no difference between saying, “guns don’t kill people” and “guns don’t make you safe”.
A gun is simply a tool, which can be used to magnify effort and intention. When the effort is evil, the evil can be made greater. When the effort is good, the goodness can be made greater. When you try to diminish evil done by a few with restricting access to guns from everybody, you also diminish the good done by the vast majority. Gun control diminishes good far more that it can ever diminish evil.
We are made safer by having guns in the hands of good people making good decisions. The more guns, the bigger and better the guns, the more good that can be done. It is the goodness that makes us safer, not the tool that is used.
Thank you for taking the time to read and understand.