Looking at crime statistics from nationmaster.com it appears the United States has slightly higher rates of most violent crimes and a significantly higher murder rate (4 times as high .4/1000 vs .1/1000), while the UK has slightly higher rates of most property crimes and significantly higher rates of burglary (about twice as high 14/1000 vs 7/1000). Since the US and the UK are different in many ways other than their gun laws (culturally, demographically etc. plus the methodologies behind the statistics are different) I'm not convinced that the differences in crime rates are entirely the result of having different gun laws. But, it does make a certain amount of sense. The increased likelihood that guns will be present during the commission of a crime seems like it would raise the stakes so murder become more likely, by the same token those increased stakes probably serve as a deterrent for lesser crimes, so robbery becomes a less appealing occupation since there's a small chance the victim may be armed and burglary becomes much less appealing since there's a good chance (in some places a near certainty) that the victim (if they're home) will be armed.

Over-stated perhaps but not "bullshit"... Libertarians to ARE quite vocally opposed to the state monopoly on violence to protect life and property, I don't see how you could have missed it. To the libertarian the ONLY legitimate use of power (by which they mean the use or threat of violence to compel others against their will) is self-defense. Self-defense is an individual, natural, "inalienable right". Government power is merely the collective expression of that same individual right. SO, anything that would not be justified by an individual acting in self-defense cannot be justified by a government acting on our collective behalf. This is the basic premise of Bastiat's "The Law" and more humorously by P.J. O'Rourke's dictum "don't pass a law if it isn't worth shooting granny over."

You're right and so is he. If you had read the full post you'd see he makes the same distinction between "no" and "any" that you just did.

*woosh*

Or, like, going to the post office and waiting often for minutes in short lines with government workers who are helpful and fri... wait, that wouldn't back up your example.

You obviously aren't going to the same Post Office I'm going to.