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To: vannrox
"There were 20 heavily armed guys at your door asking nicely for your weapon..."

That works when there are only a few people here and there with guns.
But with conservative estimates of about 1/3 of Americans owning guns - that's more than 100 million gun owners with 300+ million guns and a trillion rounds of ammo, and the news of confiscation occurring at the speed of electrons - don't see his scenario as sustainable.
Luckily, I'm not one of those gun-owners, so....

7 posted on 12/23/2018 3:28:35 AM PST by Psalm 73 ("I will now proceed to entangle the entire area".)
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To: Psalm 73
"But with conservative estimates of about 1/3 of Americans owning guns"

According to Gallup, 63% of Americans believe that having a gun in the home makes it a safer place to be. I think that's closer to the real number. If you thought that having a smoke alarm in your home made it safer, you would have one, wouldn't you?

A stranger asking if someone owns a gun, or has cash, drugs or other valuables in the home probably isn't going to get very accurate answers.

"More Than Six in 10 Americans Say Guns Make Homes Safer"

So I think it's about 2/3 of US households that own guns.

11 posted on 12/23/2018 3:59:14 AM PST by Sooth2222 ("Every nation gets the government it deserves." -Joseph de Maistre)
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To: Psalm 73

Yeah, and I’d like to know how it’s only that numbers given that for year there have been around 2 million NICS a month.

That’s 24 million in one year and well over , a guesstimate, of 150 million in the last ten years alone...


46 posted on 12/23/2018 6:49:56 AM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZGw2M)
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