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Well tbf "no guns for poor people" is pretty classist.
It's it more classist than no car if you can't afford insurance, or no mortgage if you can't afford home loan insurance (or whatever it's called in the us) though? And where are our priorities between gun, car and roof over ones head? Are guns really THAT important to cry class injustice?
Yeah tbh I'm not a fan of those being mandatory either, though seeing as "driving cars on public roads" is a privilege that you need to be licensed for rather than a right, that one is understandable. Guns are an important priority though, you may be in a safe enough area but not all of us have that luxury or privilege.
And that's why you want less guns going around, not more
Unfortunately there are over 600,000,000 guns in the country in 50% of civilians hands with no registry to know where they're at and neither the legal owners nor illegal owners are willing to part with them, pandora's box has been opened. This is among the chief reasons availability to those who haven't proven themselves a danger is important, self defense.
Sure, keep getting more then
Thats literally the dominant thought on how to ensure world peace in the age of nukes too, have enough nukes that it keeps anyone who also has nukes at bay. If you have a better solution for the afformentioned pandoras box situation package it for nuclear arms and take it to NATO, they'd love to hear it.
No I don't, but they are quite different problems.
World's nations don't have an entity governing them that can make and enforce laws. Citizens of a country do, it's called a government. Most western governments (all except for the us) have demonstrated that guns can be controlled and it's quite successful in making schools and mall shootings a non issue. We do have the occasional criminal carryingna gun, and so do corrupt cops but no one would consider arming themselves to 'protect my family '. It works.
Keep building more, I'm part of the "problem!"
So about the same situation as Australia used to be in before they banned guns after the massacre of the 90's.
I mean, no, not at all. Iirc they had a registry, but for sure they had much less than 600,000,000 guns. Aus had 6.52 licensed firearm owners per 100 citizens in '97, we have 120 firearms per 100 citizens and a carry license in some states, but no ownership licensing or registry to know who/where at all. Also, fun fact, A 2003 study (Reuter and Mouzos, 2003) estimated that approximately 20 percent of Australia’s firearms were retrieved during the buyback, let's do some math shall we? If we do the same, and ours is just as effective as theirs, 20% of 600,000,000 is 120,000,000 leaving 480,000,000 guns. Yaaay. Of course since they had a registry and less gun owners (6.2 aus vs 120 US), and they viewed firearms differently than the US where the owners refuse to give up their freedoms, their buyback was easier and we can expect it to be less effective.