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Originally Posted by Lune
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How conservatives envision gun ownership:
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Hope you're trolling.
Gun ownership statistics are easily accessible to anyone who can google and read more than a few paragraphs of a scholarly article before getting confused. And the lions share of guns are owned by those at higher socioeconomic levels. IIRC there's like 3x as many firearms owned by people of ~middle-class and higher as there are at or below the poverty line (per capita)... and it's not just raw number but also number of households that's much different between poor and middle-class and up.
But despite that, the lower socioeconomic levels commit a disproportionately high amount of gun violence... even though they don't have nearly as many guns.
So there you have it. Guns aren't the problem, proven by the fact that people who are decently-well-off (or better) own a shitload of guns and don't do many bad things with them. And the biggest "bad thing" they do with them is shoot themselves (like 2/3 of firearm deaths are suicides). Accidental firearm deaths? It's only like 600-700 per year. The same as the number of civilians who die in structure fires caused by lit tobacco products every year (not to mention firefighter deaths, hundreds of millions in damage, second hand smoke issues, etc... but the left goes berserk over a 14-year-old accidentally shot by his dad even though this other issue is objectively worse for society). Other accidental death sources? Poisoning: 30,000+ per year. Falling: 30,000+ per year.
The US needs to fix the systems and the mindsets that create cultures/areas/etc that are lacking in education and employment opportunities... AND the will to pursue them.