Safe--or Sorry?

Today we have a thought experiment:

Imagine a community of any size you want—town, city, state, whatever. There is no poison—no arsenic, no cyanide, etc.— within its boundaries. 

One day, a single vial of poison is introduced into the community. 

Would you say that the community was as safe as it was before? Or more safe? Or less safe?

Shortly thereafter a second vial of poison enters the community. 

Again I ask: As safe? More safe? Less safe?

What if a hundred vials of poison appear? Or a thousand?

As safe? More safe? Less safe?

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Let’s begin again. You have your community, but this is a community with no swords within its boundaries.

A sword is introduced. 

Is your community as safe as before? Or more safe? Or less safe?

Then a second sword appears.

Are you as safe as before? More safe? Less safe?

OK. Let’s up the number of swords to ten or a hundred or a thousand.

The question again: As safe? More safe? Less safe?

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Of course, this isn’t really about poison or swords but about guns.

I invite you to work out the analogy yourself.