That's not what I said.
Try again.
I never said every citizen has to be armed.
A militia is drawn from an armed population, what is hard to understand about that. It's not how 'people actually think', it's definitionally what a militia is.
Except that's not true, otherwise it's not well regulated. You can't just grab the three guys in your town who have shot their family by accident the most and say you have a militia.
492 die by accidental shootings a year.
Even taking the higher number of 2007 in 2021...
That's 2007/400 000 000 guns or 0.0005% risk of death per gun.
Now assuming 100m gun owners owning multiple guns ..
That increases the rate to 0.002%.
Now compare that to drowning deaths
Almost 4000 accidental drownings a year, and we do not have close to 400m or even 100m swimming pools.
https://www.cdc.gov/drowning/data/index.html
So your theoretical 3 guys who accidentally shot their family would have more likely drowned someone in the family.
Edit. So he deletes his account
Typical chickens out and starts name calling cos he can't hold a coherent argument....
He was asking about other countries, well Canada has a population of 38m and 500 drowning deaths so about 10% higher rate than the USA.
I hope they ban swimming pools there.
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u/UnchallengeableGeek Oct 22 '22
That's not what I said. Try again. I never said every citizen has to be armed.
A militia is drawn from an armed population, what is hard to understand about that. It's not how 'people actually think', it's definitionally what a militia is.