The Absolutely Ridiculous Number of Guns in the United States
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The Absolutely Ridiculous Number of Guns in the United States
Graph of the Week #9
The figure above shows that the United States in 2018 had more than 120 guns for every 100 people, totaling almost 400 million guns. The United States is a considerable outlier in global context. Since 2018, Americans have bought about 55 million more guns, bringing the national armory to about 450 million guns. (Sources: Here and here).
The ubiquity of guns in the United States represent a failure of American society and indicative of deep policy failure. Much harm has resulted.
What a dumb article Roger, especially for a professor who showed that climate change didn’t cause more damaging storms. The US is a rich country, many gun owners own multiple weapons. In fact, as a percentage of population, gun ownership is down. Also laughable…your Ukrainian flag on your Twitter profile. Not because you support Ukraine…but because they need more guns!
"The ubiquity of guns in the United States represent a failure of American society and indicative of deep policy failure. Much harm has resulted."
It's exactly the opposite. I say this as a Greek citizen living in Greece. The 2nd Amendment is the cornerstone of your society. Without that any other amendment could have withered and violated. It is BECAUSE you have a lot of guns that kept you relatively free albeit with an alarming bureaucracy ramping up. Every rose (must) have its thorn and even the word "Democracy" is hinting that the "people hold" (power, physical and institutional). Only the citizens of Athens held weapons in ancient times and that was something that safeguarded their sovereignty over many attempts of power usurpation. Sorry but you are wrong in this.