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That simply isn't an easy job with the current interpretation of the 2nd Ammendment and somewhere around 3 to 4 million AR15s alone, well more than 300M firearm
by thisacctforreal 9y ago
That simply isn't an easy job with the current interpretation of the 2nd Ammendment and somewhere around 3 to 4 million AR15s alone, well more than 300M firearms total[1]
It's a matter of 0.00013% of the population (1 in 750,000)[2] picking one of them up one day and deciding to use it for a killing spree.
Mass shootings are tragic, but it's not as if there's a good solution to them on the table waiting to be taken.
[1] http://www.slate.com/blogs/crime/2012/12/20/assault_rifle_stats_how_many_assault_rifles_are_there_in_america.html http://www.slate.com/blogs/crime/2012/12/20/assault_rifle_st...
edit: [2] I previously used ~0.00002%, or 50 mass shootings per year, but there were 427 in 2017 including shootings with just injuries https://massshootingtracker.org/data/2017 https://massshootingtracker.org/data/2017