There is no gun problem in the united states
Numbers don’t lie. I’m writing this because there is a huge population of people who wish for all guns to be banned indiscriminately, not just for more limitations.
We have ~33,000 gun deaths annually, give or take. 66% are suicides, so there are 11,000 gun deaths annually. We can guess that the vast majority of these gun deaths are then gang on gang murder or police justifiably shooting citizens.
How many regular people then, are killed by guns per year? Probably a couple thousand or so, only. How many regular people are killed by legally owned guns, then? Probably somewhere around, let’s say 200. It’s reasonable to estimate that half of these killings would happen anyway, giving a number of about a hundred deaths. If you’re planning to kill your wife or something, I’m assuming you’re going to do it anyway regardless of whatever. Considering a population of 330 million and a lifespan of 80 years, you have an estimated 0.002% chance of falling into that category, of being a victim of murder that would have been prevented by gun control. That is an astronomically low risk, about the same of being struck by lightning, even if you disagree with and change up some of the numbers.
For would be school or mass shooters, just keep them under constant surveillance. Can’t be that hard in a modern era. That’s more of a mental health and ineffective law enforcement crisis than a gun issue, too.
Now that we know about the almost non-existent harm legal guns cause, let’s look at the good that they bring. “According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, almost every major study on defensive gun use has found that Americans use their firearms defensively between 500,000 and 3 million times each year. There’s good reason to believe that most defensive gun uses are never reported to law enforcement, much less picked up by local or national media outlets.” Almost all of these events would be just brandishing your weapon, which stops more escalation of crime or violence.
No smart fucking remarks please. I’d like to see if anyone can even dispute this.
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