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Imagine if some foreign country was giving weapons to Americans protesting ICE, and said here's a bunch of guns, go kill your Federal agents?
americans have guns already and it evidently doesn't seem to work that way. only someone with a death wish would use a gun against the government
Less than half of Americans own guns, it's some of the people who do own guns that own an armory worth of weapons that throws the stats off.
32% own a gun, 42% live in a household with a gun
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/07/24/key-facts-about-americans-and-guns/
32% is actually huge
I was surprised to hear this from people I knew in the US. Some were right in with the gun culture and others were definitely not and didn’t own guns. Like all stats, you have to look at the details rather than the averages.
There are more guns than people in the US.
Yeah that's the stat that made me think they were much more common, but the third who do own guns tend to own more than one, and a few own way more than one.
Correct, with some of the more prolific owners having as many as 30 or more.
wtf why would you ever need that many guns? i could rationalize one of each type per adult but even with a generous loadout (rifle, shotgun, and sidearm) and little Tina trained to dual-wield 9mm pistols while she does drive-by attacks from her tricycle, they still wouldn't equip half of these. this is just begging to get "lost" or stolen by a roving biker gang during a Mad Max type event.
Most of those probably aren't maintained well enough to actually be useful. I mean, a few of them probably get used for target shooting every so often, but they probably have most of them just to have them. Like how some people collect action figures, dolls, or cars, some people collect guns.
Still an insane stat seen from the outside, 42% of households is wild.
I live around the kind of people that want guns, as a result I need guns. To protect myself from the fucking psychos.