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by rootusrootus
7 hours ago
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> Quite an assertion. You must have misunderstood the assertion, then. I will attempt to clarify. - Australia tried to get rid of guns, still has millions. Several hundred thousand of them illegal. - Australia has a much lower firearms homicide rate, despite still having quite a lot of guns. Not the same ratio as the US, sure, but 4.5M guns for 28M people is still fairly prevalent and available. - So the rate 1:50 ratio is not easily explained by simply reducing the number of guns in circulation. Something else is going on. Something harder to solve, even, than the second amendment. |
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I think reducing the "saturation" of guns is important, as it is a big driver of people's mindset, whereby they see a gun as an answer. By "saturation, I mean the number owned, their availability, their visibility, their promotion and so on. The US is a standout in ownership, in that it has almost twice as many civilian firearms per person than the next closest country [1]. I suspect the US is also a standout in the other areas: availability (Walmart, but less than before), visibility (open carry), promotion (NRA).
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_g...