There are approximately 300 million firearms in private hands in the USA.
There are approximately 30 thousand firearms deaths in the USA per year. Only 13 thousand are murders.
It's an ownership rate of 23,077 firearms per murder. And there are 23,076 firearms per murder that are not involved.
Another
perspective shot: The Nazis murdered about 12 million people between
1939 and 1945 (not going to count combat here), 2 million per year.
153.8 times the US annual rate. Hitler is an "also ran" when it comes
to murdering people. Mao and Stalin killed far more. Pol Pot beat his
rate, but not his total.
Tell me again why we should trust the government and disarm?
Oh,
Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol have something else in common. All of
their governments were based on some form of Socialism. This
commonality does not reassure me to trust my government when it's making
a concerted move towards the left and more socialist policy.
To
get me to worry less I would make only one change to current, federal,
gun laws. Repeal the Hughes amendment to the FOPA. That let's people
fill out Form 1s for making machineguns. The second thing I would do is
appoint a gun nut to head the ATF. Wanna bet that people like me calm
down a whole lot when those two things are compared with, say,
socialized medicine?
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