Anonymous ID: 6b1e0a June 23, 2022, 8:20 p.m. No.16498059   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8072 >>8106

Just some gun, crime and population musings:

 

81.4 Million Gun Owners In The US:

https://americangunfacts.com/gun-ownership-statistics/

 

Guns used defensively btwn 500K - 3Mx per year:

https://www.heritage.org/firearms/commentary/why-these-defensive-uses-firearms-should-disarm-second-amendment-skeptics

 

Population 330M. Under 18 22%. Therefore adults = 257.4M

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045221

 

So, on the low end: 81M divided by 500K is .6% of gun owners using a gun annually for defensive reasons. So, in a 10 year time frame, you've cycled through 6% of gun owners; which are really only 30% of the adult population (approx).

 

Presumably, if the other 17M adults owned a gun, it would stand to reason that guns could be used defensively another 1.5M times (at the low end) and on the high end 9M+ times per year on the high end.