• clausetrophobic@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Because a world where people are firing guns at each other all the time is INSANE, regardless of the context. Most of the developed world has figured this out.

    • SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today
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      1 year ago

      If you look at the data, the vast majority of people who are ‘firing guns at each other all the time’ are gang members in low-income inner cities.

      To distill a bunch of stats, half the people of the US own guns, and they own enough guns to arm the other half and have plenty left over.
      Per FBI, there’s about 10k-15k firearm homicides per year. That means on average an American has a 0.005% chance of being killed by a gun in any given year.

      If we truly were ‘firing guns at each other all the time’ that number would be WAY WAY WAY WAY higher.