But in practice what we see is the exact opposite, the more guns owned by Americans the lower our rate of gun homicide. Of course this is just a correlation, no one is saying more guns is causing the decline in gun homicide but what we can say with certainty is that more guns, and allowing more Americans to carry them in more places, has not caused higher death rates from gun homicide. So your opinion does not jive with what we see happening in the numbers. Do you own any guns or does most of your experience with them come from television and movies?
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I grew up around guns and used them to go hunting on the farm. We only ever hat single shot rifles or shotguns. If you can’t hit a wallaby with a rifle in one shot then you need to give up hunting. The need for a fully automatic high powered assault rifle seems pretty extreme for hunting or to defend yourself. These seem to be the weapon of choice for people committing these mass shootings worldwide.
Fully automatic weapons require a federal tax stamp and cost about $30,000 and have to have been made before 1984, can you tell me the last time someone used a legally registered machine gun in a crime in America?
This kid used a stolen shotgun and .38 revolver.