re: #93 JordanRules

I’d bet we’ve already had more incidents involving guns (not in the hands of LEOs) during this current round of activities.

I don’t know. A lot of different figures are used to say what the number of people who are killed by guns is: The most-cited figure I can come up with is 33,000 per annum.

That by itself is a horrible statistic compared to other First World countries (and a lot of Third World countries).

Gun manufacturers seem to be approaching the market in some ways that the tobacco industry is. A whole bunch of guns are owned by a small fraction of the population. Most people own none, some like me own one, a few own two or three, and a tiny fraction own an arsenal. The market for guns seems pretty saturated here.

So manufacturers are pushing for things like relaxing restrictions on exports, so they can sell more overseas. (That is where they are similar to tobacco companies.)

As a percentage of the population, the Washington Post reported last year that gun ownership as a percentage of the populace was the lowest in forty years.

They list a number of different surveys in the article, and I would note that some gun owners are paranoid enough they probably wouldn’t answer (or say they own none). That said, the trend line has been steadily down for ownership since the Seventies.