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19. I'm going to, for the sake of argument, go with the pro-control premise...
Mon Jul 25, 2016, 02:43 PM
Jul 2016

...that is that 'guns cause death'. There are about 300,000,000 guns in the US and in 2014 there were 33,599 gun deaths including murders, suicides, accidents, police shootings, self-defense...
There were 81,034 injuries via shooting criminal assaults, police shootings, accidents, self-defense...

Here's my math 33,599 + 81,034 = 114,633

114,633/300,000,000 = about 0.00038211 deaths and injuries per gun. The reciprocal of that number should tell us how many guns have to act together to cause an injury or death. (Technically we should remove the police shooting and justifiable homicides, or at least the ones the control folks agree with.) The number is 2,618 rounding up.

I assert that individuals should be allowed to own 2,617 guns, no more without an FFL.

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