Re: Actually no I didn't..
The problem with that analogy, though, is that just as most people don't carry loaded handguns on them, most mutants aren't actually all that dangerous. The thing with the X-Men is that we generally focus on the ones with spectacular powers that could blow your head off if they wanted to, because that makes for more exciting stories, but I believe it is actually canon that most mutants in the MU either have useful-but-in-no-way-dangerous powers, like Cypher, or completely useless powers like being able to make colored spots appear on your belly, or no powers at all and just looking funny. These are in the vast majority, with the genuinely dangerous mutants being few and far between - this is why Xavier has to go on scouting missions to fill his team's roster. If all or most mutants were the blow-your-head-off kind, the X-Men would be functionally useless, because they'd be completely outnumbered - it'd be like sending a single battalion of soldiers up against an army. There may well be several thousand mutants in the MU who are indeed extremely dangerous, but in a world with millions of people, they represent only a small fraction of the populace. The reason people in the MU are paranoid about mutants is not because every mutant can blow their heads off, it's because they've heard the horror stories about the few of them who can, and blown them all out of proportion.