This is for all of you “take em away” people. SPOILER ALERT: It will NEVER happen.
Facts gathered and originally posted by George Pardos of The Bear Newz
I want to share some gun facts with some of you, because it seems the left is absent of facts and that the feels outweigh common sense.
Please share so people can at least be enlightened on facts.
1- DC vs Heller was a decision to say the 2nd Amendment guaranteed gun ownership outside of militia affiliation.
2- 31% of all homes in America have a gun.
3- There are 101 guns per 100 people in the USA.
4- Mass shootings account for a small fraction of gun deaths.
5- If you do not introduce a gun into commerce, you do not have to put a serial number on it. Estimated 3 Million guns in the USA that are under this.
6- There are 33 GOP governors in the USA, most of those states are pro gun. You arent passing gun laws to restrict ownership.
7- Cato institute and Pew research have estimated that roughly the amount of gun owners willing to go to war over gun ownership is around 11 Million. Part of the III% number that you see floating around the internet.
8- Rape is one of the crimes that rises in neighborhoods with no gun ownership. (Chicago Tribune source)
9- In 2017 the state of Wisconsin there were 588,387 licenses issues. It makes Wisconsin the 8th largest Army in the world for reference. On par with South Korea.
10- Texas had 1,030,000 hunters in 2013, making it the 4th largest army in the world based on comparison. Only behind India, China and the USA.
11- In 2012 there were 891,000 police officers in the USA, which means that they were outnumbered 131 to 1 in comparison to gun owners.
12- 10,847,792 were made in 2015
The number of pistols, revolvers, rifles, shotguns and miscellaneous firearms manufactured in the U.S. in 2013, the latest full year available. That's 4,441,726 pistols, 725,282 revolvers, 3,979,570 rifles, 1,203,072 shotguns, and 495,142 miscellaneous firearms.(ATF numbers)
13- Guns are a 13.5 Billion dollar industry yearly.
14- How would you enforce confiscation ? The numbers alone do not have personnel needed for execution.
15- You can not make ammo expensive as reloading and manufacturing ammo is relatively easy.
16- You can print a gun, as 3D printing expands so do the designs for firearms you can not stop the printers.
17- States without the death penalty have lower crime rates.
18- Armed populations have always made insurgencies work, for example, Vietnam, Angola, Rwanda, Rhodesia, are some examples.
19- Gun crime is going down every year since 1991.
20- Violence has gone down since 1991 also.
21- As of 2015, states with the most guns had the lowest gun violence. (Politico)
22- States with most gun laws also have the least deaths. Legislation strength has a correlation with lower crime.
23- Mass shootings are less frequent. (Politico)
These are some of the facts about guns, you might not like them but facts do not care about your feelings. Here is the thing, the idea of grabbing guns in the United States from gun owners is next to impossible. You arent getting them, you cant get them and the saturation level is so high that it is not fathomable. There endeth the lesson..
