“The difficulty is whether you look at [gun ownership] from an individual or societal level. As an individual who’s worried and wants to do something to protect themselves—it doesn’t matter what the overall statistics are. From their perspective it would be rational… but if [more people buy more guns], we know from the data that that’s associated with higher levels of gun violence.” – Anupam Jena in Gun Sales Spike as People Buy Deadlier Weapons to Protect Themselves [via newsweek.com]