[BCR #226]

I don’t know, he put national defense in the lap of the Justices with it.

[Publius Valerius]

I think the better answer to that question was simply that there is no indication that banning handguns reduces gun violence, not that there is an acceptable level of gun violence because some people will be better trained for the military. His answer implicitly admits that banning guns would lower violent crime rates.