BeepOptical illusion
VictorHold up. The US has over 100 guns per 100 people? š³ So on average, everyone owns at least one gun?
Itās that the people who own guns tend to own gunnnsssss. Like an entire arsenal. Most people donāt own any.
Around 40% in the USA own at least one firearm. Itās probably higher now since trump is back in power.
That is higher than I thought, but still not most.
Think of it this way. The majority of our gun deaths are from suicides, then the next largest amount is from gang/drug violence, after that itās police (on average 1k a year) then itās the rest. Meaning that around 4k deaths a year are from literally everything else (domestic/robberies/random acts). We donāt really have a gun problem, we have an issue with our society. 99.99999999% of all firearms in civ hands have never been used to harm another person.
Poverty creates the violence, lack of education, lack of social support, lack of opportunities, lack of healthcare. If we fixed those things, our guns violence would plummet overnight. But the owners of this country would rather have us fighting each other than them.
With this logic, saying poverty is what creates the violence, and that the existence of the guns have nothing to do with it, should mean that of you removed all the guns, youād still have the same proportion of homicide with knives instead.
And I donāt think that would be the case.
Poverty necessitates the violence, I agree. But the availability of guns makes the violence accessible.
Both are problems.
Do remember that we have no registry, which means that number is self reported and itās just a educated guess. Myself and many others buy private sales. Iāve never purchased from a FFL or online. Everything I own is purchased from private owners in my state. I donāt fall into that 40%. With trump in power, many new owners are buying locally as well and many on the left are now armed.
Some of us put ownership around 50% at this point.