If every American had a gun would there be more or less dead bodies ?
56-60, M
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robb65 · 56-60, M
It wouldn't make much, if any difference. Pretty much anyone who wants one can get one, including people who legally can't buy one and have to resort to buying them on the black market, and at least a few who probably should have been banned from owning one, but thanks to a well paid lawyer.....
Here, just about everyone I know owns at least one gun, most own an assortment. I strongly suspect that finding anyone withing say, a 10 mile radius of where I am who doesn't own a gun would be quiet a challenge. And yet it's a peaceful place and shootings are rare to the point it's big news when it happens. As long as you're not screwing someone elses wife or dealing drugs the odds of being shot are extremely low.
Meanwhile 60 miles away it's a different story. There's certain neighborhoods you simply don't want to be in after dark, and maybe not even during the day. You can almost bet on there being a shooting or two over the weekend, and quiet possibly and innocent bystander getting caught in the crossfire. I have no way to know for sure, but my best guess is that guns are a lot less common there than they are here, They certainly have a higher police presence compared to where I am which is well outside of police jurisdiction and I almost never see any law enforcement in this community so that doesn't explain it either. My best guess is there's a higher concentration of hoodlums there than there is here. I could guess why that is, and I might guess wrong, but the thing I'm sure of is you could hand out guns and ammo by the cases here and it would still be a safe and peaceful community.
Here, just about everyone I know owns at least one gun, most own an assortment. I strongly suspect that finding anyone withing say, a 10 mile radius of where I am who doesn't own a gun would be quiet a challenge. And yet it's a peaceful place and shootings are rare to the point it's big news when it happens. As long as you're not screwing someone elses wife or dealing drugs the odds of being shot are extremely low.
Meanwhile 60 miles away it's a different story. There's certain neighborhoods you simply don't want to be in after dark, and maybe not even during the day. You can almost bet on there being a shooting or two over the weekend, and quiet possibly and innocent bystander getting caught in the crossfire. I have no way to know for sure, but my best guess is that guns are a lot less common there than they are here, They certainly have a higher police presence compared to where I am which is well outside of police jurisdiction and I almost never see any law enforcement in this community so that doesn't explain it either. My best guess is there's a higher concentration of hoodlums there than there is here. I could guess why that is, and I might guess wrong, but the thing I'm sure of is you could hand out guns and ammo by the cases here and it would still be a safe and peaceful community.