laverabe@lemmy.worldM to Political Discussion and Commentary@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoWhat policy topic do you feel the majority of Lemmy/the Fediverse disagrees with, but that you can back up with bulletproof logic?message-squaremessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up111arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up19arrow-down1message-squareWhat policy topic do you feel the majority of Lemmy/the Fediverse disagrees with, but that you can back up with bulletproof logic?laverabe@lemmy.worldM to Political Discussion and Commentary@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square25fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoEven if you made guns illegal overnight, there’s no feasible way to remove and destroy 400 million guns. People love to say “Australia did it!” Australia only removed 650,000 guns, 20% of all privately owned guns. https://www.vox.com/2015/8/27/9212725/australia-buyback In order to have the same impact, the US would have to run the equivalent of the Australian program 123 times.
Even if you made guns illegal overnight, there’s no feasible way to remove and destroy 400 million guns.
People love to say “Australia did it!” Australia only removed 650,000 guns, 20% of all privately owned guns.
https://www.vox.com/2015/8/27/9212725/australia-buyback
In order to have the same impact, the US would have to run the equivalent of the Australian program 123 times.