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scrion@lemmy.world 6 months agoAmassing guns does not mean amassing knowledge and training on how to properly use them. On a side note, the actual number is more like 1.2 guns per civilian, which is (terrifyingly) impressive.
Even if that number wouldn’t be a simple average, it still doesn’t mean each civilian has received proper training or is even fit for handling a gun, even though 72% have apparently at least once fired a gun in their lifetime - though that can literally mean they onced pulled the trigger on a hunting trip with dad at age 7, with him holding the gun.
Honestly, let me speak as an American as well: People shouldn’t be handling guns at all.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 6 months ago
You probably meant to link to this rather than the SAS homepage: LINK
scrion@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This explicitly estimates civilian gun ownership.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 6 months ago
So then what was the point of using that as an argument against my estimate if it was an intentionally incomplete dataset?