Those who suggest (or insist) that correlations prove that gun possession guarantees gun-related harm are essentially arguing a version of Schrödinger’s cat — where every person is simultaneously a shooter, a victim, and a bystander… and your neighbor’s dusty rifle, locked in a closet, is somehow shooting up a school, protecting someone, and doing absolutely nothing, all at the same time — until a policy advocate opens the box and decides which outcome they prefer.