JD Vance has said school shootings are a "fact of life" and called for security in classrooms, not gun control, to stop them.
@#25 ... That does not seem historically accurate. More households had guns then than they do now. ...
The number of households owning guns is quite a different data point than the data point you are trying to gainsay, i.e., the proliferation of guns.
Unraveling the Threads of America's Gun Culture (2023)
www.vitalcitynyc.org
... We live in a world in which there are more guns than Americans -- approximately 1.2 guns per American, a per capita rate double that of the next-highest country. ...
Another interesting data point...
Gun Deaths per Capita by State
worldpopulationreview.com
blockquote>...The following ten states have the highest gun deaths per capita (per 100,000): Alaska (24.4), Mississippi (24.2), Wyoming (22.3), New Mexico (22.3), Alabama (22.2), Louisiana (22.1), Missouri (20.6), South Carolina (19.9), Arkansas (19.3), and Montana (19.3).
The states with the highest gun deaths per capita have some of the country's highest gun ownership rates. Montana has the highest with 66.3%, followed by Wyoming with 66.2%, and Alaska with 64.5%.
Conversely, the states with the lowest gun deaths per capita are Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Hawaii, and Rhode Island, all of which have fewer than five gun deaths per 100,000 people. These states also have the lowest gun ownership in the United States. ...
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