[geeks] [rescue] Guns - what are they good for? - was Re: TME and Apple II and other Drive emulator questions.

[Jonathan Groll]

On Tue, 20 May 2014 15:35:31 -0400, Phil Stracchino <phils at caerllewys.net> wrote:
> My recollection is that the US actually ranks no higher than third or
> fourth among all world nations in firearms ownership per 100,000.
> However, you have to compare the correct numbers - "persons per 100,000
> who possess firearms", not "number of firearms possessed per 100,000
> population", which is not the same thing at all.  (Many US firearms
> owners have sizeable collections, with a small minority such as C. Reed
> Knight of Knight Armaments Corporation having collections numbered in
> the thousands, but "a man can only shoot just so many guns at once", and
> you only need to own one gun to commit a murder with it.)
> 
> I'm hazier about which nations were claimed to have the highest firearms
> ownership rates, but I vaguely recall both Switzerland and Finland being
> claimed to have a higher proportion of firearms owners than the US, and
> I think Israel was also on the list.

Every reliable source that I can find shows the US has more guns per capita
than any other nation on earth.

Furthermore, it leads the statistics by a large margin. Even higher
than countries such as Switzerland and Israel where a large proportion
of the population have a military issue weapon available to them.

So, this shouldn't be a hazy fact.

Cheers,
Jonathan
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