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I’d assume there were more readily available guns post ww2. If not for guns they’d be making pipe bombs or other weapons.
by bushbaba 4y ago
I’d assume there were more readily available guns post ww2. If not for guns they’d be making pipe bombs or other weapons.
- blizdiddy 4y agoThat's a totally baseless assumption, and it's wrong. But yeah, just spout whatever comes to your head to the internet and move on.
- scottLobster 4y agoGiven that you could order guns in the Sears catalog with no background check whatsoever back in the day, it's not baseless. Access to guns was demonstrably easier. It's a baseless opinion that there are "too many guns", without even an attempt to define a range for what constitutes "too many". The implication is "there should be no guns", but that's a moral opinion to be debated, not a fact.
- XorNot 4y agoBecause something took time to evolve into a problem doesn't mean it wasn't always a problem.
- bushbaba 4y agoIt’s not. Percentage of Americans owning at least one gun has trended downwards over last 50 years. https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/us/rate-of-gun-ownership-is-down-survey-shows.html https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/us/rate-of-gun-ownership-... https://www.norc.org/PDFs/GSS%20Reports/GSS_Trends%20in%20Gun%20Ownership_US_1972-2014.pdf https://www.norc.org/PDFs/GSS%20Reports/GSS_Trends%20in%20Gu...