• ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    The 600 million+ guns (his number was a bit outdated) in 45%+ of the populations hands with no registry to know where/who/exactly how many, who do not want to give up what they’ve got by any means (for all different reasons depending on which demographic group of gun owners we are talking about specifically), and who already have a manufacturing culture in place in regards to firearms, and all the equipment to do so.

    No other country had that. Pandora’s box has been opened. What’s more, there are countries with gun bans and a booming black market, they’re just “developing.” I think that is a bit dismissive, as we also have struggles controlling illicit importation that would lead to the same consequences even if we could shut down home production and zap every gun inside the US from existence, they’d come back, in short order. Stuff moves, the cartels have South Korean grenades and soviet AKs in addition to the guns they get from the ATF (operation fast and furious) or straw purchasers.