(02-24-2024, 12:40 AM)Infolurker Wrote: There are 415 million firearms in a population of nearly 332 million
https://home.dartmouth.edu/news/2024/02/...?tags=1131
There are, but we also need to recognize that all those firearms are owned by probably half of the population, and the rest are unarmed.
Out of that half of the population, probably only 10% or so would actually shoot to kill, drop invaders in their tracks.
Still. 10% of half the population is still 5% of the entire population... so, around 16.5 million serious shooters (not counting military and police). I note that we fought and won an entire revolution with only 3% of the population getting serious about forming their own country.
Add to that the fact that if shit got real, some of those firearms owned in multiples by the armed half would surely find their way to formerly unarmed folks who suddenly became Believers...
So, yeah, "invasion" could turn out to be a really bone-headed idea.
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