• Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    There are so many guns in the US right now that it’s ridiculous. Gun control here would be great… If it were done a hundred years ago. I’m not saying I’m against common sense laws, but like… Pandoras box is open here.

    There are 120 firearms for every 100 civilians that live in the U.S. We have 46% of the total worldwide statistic for civilian ownership. The US makes up only a meager 331.9 million out of 7.89 billion people worldwide. That means 4.2% of the world owns 46% of the guns… And those people are all American.

    On top of this, some of the most heinous shootings in US history were performed with illegally obtained weapons. Columbine is one of the examples most will recognize.

    I’m not leading up to anything here, I just wanted to educate everyone on how fucked we are.

    Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_ownership

    • GiddyGap@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      I’m not leading up to anything here, I just wanted to educate everyone on how fucked we are.

      Definitely, but your argument is unfortunately what keeps us from ever doing anything about it. Thinking that it can’t be done is just not good enough.