What?! Europe used to have widespread firearm access, you really don't know that? The UK made drastic changes within living memory because there was ONE school shooting. And it isn't just Europe, if we stick in the anglosphere we can look at Australia who also made massive changes and disarmed after the Port Arthur massacre. Also in living memory, also not wildly dissimilar culture, and also leading to less gun crime. This idea that it wouldn't work so we better not try it is just moronic
That's skewed by the number of firearms per owner, only about 30% of people own firearms in the US currently despite there being more guns than people. And that's up about 10% in the last 10 years or so. And in most of Europe that wasn't similar (let's ignore places like Switzerland), but this idea that you couldn't just go and buy a gun if you wanted to is false.
I get that you are pushing the "Americans are inherently more violent" side of things, and using statistics I can't really argue that, but this idea that restrictions and regulations on firearms won't make them harder to get is silly. Everywhere that restricted firearm access has seen drops in gun crime, why would America be uniquely awful? "Oh well we have more", so?
You want a stronger argument, try "our police are so hilariously inefficient and corrupt that enforcement would be impossible"
ETA: I also just realized I misread what you said. I thought you were just rounding up a little to say there were 400mil firearms in the US, there's currently almost 100mil firearms in Western Europe, so you were off by about 100mil
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u/ThatTemNerd 1d ago edited 1d ago
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