It's difficult because you get a few bad eggs who ruin things for everybody. Shooting guns is pretty fun & everyone I personally know who own them are typically
extremely responsible with their weapons...they have safes, they have legal authorization, they do training, their families are taught gun safety, etc.
Statistically, 40% of American households own guns, so nearly half the nation has access to firearms at home:
One report says the U.S. has just 4% of the world’s population but owns about 40% of civilian-owned firearms globally.
wamu.org
Mass shootings make up only 0.1% of firearm homicides:
The majority of the people who own guns live with them responsibly. It gets even more watered-down statistically:
1. 99.59% of US deaths are NOT firearm homicides
2. Of that 0.41% of firearm homicides, 99.77% are not mass shootings
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And despite what is accepted as common knowledge regarding semi-automatic weapons, it's actually
handguns that account for the majority of mass public shootings: (over 50%)
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