(July 10, 2021 at 3:51 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote:(July 10, 2021 at 2:20 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: This is why the question is pointless - at 1 billion guns or 50 billion guns, there’s no overall difference.A person might even infer that the rate of gun crime in the us is exactly what we might expect it to be no matter the amount of guns, if we were in a country that was no longer interested in enforcing its gun laws.
Boru
The number doesn’t reflect guns per capita, but unpoliced gun criminals per capita.
And by extension, it’s your gun culture that needs to be addressed, not the number of guns.
Boru
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