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I think you're drastically overestimating how much action weapons see. Consider the amount of rifles belonging to collectors, military, how many are used in tra
by bsamuels 13y ago
I think you're drastically overestimating how much action weapons see. Consider the amount of rifles belonging to collectors, military, how many are used in training, how many are in weapons stockpile.
Maybe 1 in 5 rifles have even been used in action. Probably 1 in 5 of those rifles have ever hit someone. It's going to be a number several orders of magnitude lower than 200 million that's for sure.
- sillysaurus2 13y agoEven 2 million people is a loss of life hard for me to comprehend. The only way I can come to terms with that number is by thinking of it like: If I meet one new person each day, then I'll meet about 1000 people every three years. If I die 30 years from now, then I'll have met 10k people. In that circumstance, 2 million people is 200x more souls than I'll meet in the rest of my life. I'd have to meet two hundred new people each and every day for 30 years. Kind of strange trying to wrap my head around such numbers. Maybe nonsensical looking at it that way, but it's the only way to look at it that hits me how each of these people who died were people with hopes and dreams and fears and loves. Some of those people were vicious wild animals; others may have been poets caught in a bad situation.
- chiph 13y agoThe Great Purge by the NKVD during Stalin's time was directly responsible for the death of almost 1.5 million people. Those killed indirectly (starved to death because of poor decision making by collectivist workers because the more intelligent people were jailed/killed) vastly exceeds that figure.