... might argue that the high-school girl needs to have a gun to disrupt what has become the natural order: it’s the bad guys that have the guns (If the girl scares off the mugger, then the introduction ... on the fall of crime Then there is an opposite argument—that we need more guns on the street, but in the hands of the right people (like the high-school girl above, instead of her mugger) The ... deterrent, but they also provided the manpower to imprison criminals who might have otherwise gone uncaught The hiring of additional police accounted for roughly 10 percent of the 1990s crime...