Strangely, people are not saved in Europe or Japan by civilian firearms... Because they are not threatened by guns in the first place.
The US has a murder rate and a gun accident rate higher than any other developed nation.
Your argument is spurious and I reject it entirely. Just more useless gun nut crap.
Why don't you consider any South American Country to be "Developed"?
The US is actually right in the middle of the Pack in terms of the prevalence of violence .
And not all of the less developed are behind us.
Including the "developed" qualifier allows the argument to exclude any nation that does not support the theory.
Including all of the nations makes us look a lot better.
And we really have more in common with Brazil than we have in common with Norway.
So what is it that makes a nation "developed"?
Is it having less violent crime than the US?
There are nations with more violence than the US and stricter gun control.
There are nations with more access to guns and less violence.
The "developed" qualifier is spurious , if we had tougher gun control we might just as well move in the direction of Columbia as in the direction of France.
And we have more in common with Mexico than we have with any part of Europe.