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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]you aren't going to be able to ban guns when trust in society is fraying and distrust of centralized institutions is leading to more and more gun sales. [/b]

people are buying exponentially (look at it, it is an exponenital curve) more guns, like i am talking 50+ million sold since covid, somewhere around 30 million handguns and 20 million rifles and shotguns. 
To put that into perspective, the entire US military procures less than 80k/rifles per year. More arms were sold in the last 2-3 years than in probably 100 years of the US military procurement.

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Don't own a gun and never will, but the bolded is very salient.

And while international colleagues (usually UK or European) sometimes make very pointed comments about US gun culture etc., a Canadian colleague who was pretty appalled at certain government actions during their trucker protests shared that he didn't think that would ever happen in the US because the citizenry is so armed.[/quote]

My spouse and I bought two handguns in 2020 as an act of prudence; couldn’t really tell whether social winds might justify violence (and against who), and whether government agencies would even intervene if violence was happening.  Seemed best to have a fighting chance if everything went off the rails.  Seems like lots of other people felt the same.[/quote]

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