• @Woht24
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    -21 year ago

    I’m actually mostly on your side, I think the US is too far gone. If you took peoples guns off them in the US, I genuinely think there would be a or several small civil wars.

    Further a lot of people would just refuse, hide their guns etc.

    If the US actually tried to do what Australia did I think you’d actually see a drop in shootings etc but it would take 50-70 years to actually get through the majority of weapons ‘on the street’.

    But to say it’s logistically impossible is absolutely and completely wrong. It’s culturally near impossible.

    P.s. I’m Australian and our shooting crimes are going up, pistol numbers are going up too and we have the worst self defence laws. I wish I could have a loaded Glock and the right to shoot an intruder in my home honestly.

    • @jordanlund
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      01 year ago

      Think of like this, your average pistol weighs just over a pound (.45kg) and your average rifle around 8 pounds (3.62kg)

      So somewhere between 400 million and 3.2 billion pounds of metal, wood, and plastic. Between 180 million and 1.448 billion kg.

      Low number is assuming all pistols, high number is assuming all rifles, so the real number is going to be between the two.

      As a point of comparison, the US generates 268 million tons of garbage every year:

      https://www.dumpsters.com/blog/us-trash-production

      You’re talking many times that JUST for guns.