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You don’t think the nra telling people to be scared and that they need a gun to feel safe is more of the issue?

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Not really, because the vast, vast, number of gun owners don’t use them.

Let me give you some perspective…

We don’t REALLY know, but the best estimate is there are around 474 MILLION guns in the United States.

https://www.thetrace.org/2023/03/guns-america-data-atf-total/

In 2021, 48,830 people died from gun injuries.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/26/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-u-s/

54% of those were suicides. So 22,462 murders or accidents.

Gun laws are never going to prevent suicides, only national mental health care can do that. So looking at the murders and accidents:

22,462 / 474,000,000? 0.0000473878

That’s not a crisis, it’s a rounding error. And, yes, each one of those 22,000 deaths individually is a tragedy, but that also means 473,978,000 guns sat around collecting dust.

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but that also means 473,978,000 guns sat around collecting dust.

Nah, many were used for hunting, self defense that didn’t lead to a death, sport shooting, target practice… Etc… Likely orders of magnitude higher than the amount used to commit murders.

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And, yes, each one of those 22,000 deaths individually is a tragedy, but that also means 473,978,000 guns sat around collecting dust

So if a gun isn’t being used to kill someone it is collecng dust?

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Not necessarily, it could be used for hunting, or target practice, but any gun that isn’t actively being used is, yeah, kind of just sitting around somewhere.

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In 2021, 48,830 people died from gun injuries.

Jesus christ… Let’s compare to other developed nations, wanna do per capita or total?

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Other countries don’t have a 2nd Amendment. Not the same thing.

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