From: Michael S. Lorrey (retroman@turbont.net)
Date: Mon Mar 13 2000 - 19:06:48 MST
Zero Powers wrote:
>
> >From: "Michael S. Lorrey" <mike@datamann.com>
> >
> >Since there are more people in the US than guns, then it is hardly a
> >statement
> >of fact. Since there are more people in the world than guns in the world,
> >it is
> >also not a statement of fact. A statement of fact would be,"an organization
> >that
> >fights to maintain every law abiding American's right to own as many or as
> >few
> >guns as they wish." That would be a statement of fact as well as
> >non-inflammatory.
>
> I recall reading something that said there are more guns in the US than
> people. That was why I made the statement. However, if I am wrong about
> that, I am not ashamed to admit it. Do you know where the number of guns in
> circulation can be found?
I don't have a citation, however, the highest reliable estimate that I
have ever heard, which includes all antique guns dating back to the
Civil and Revolutionary Wars that are still in existence, which may or
may not be in functional condition (hardly useful for causing mayhem,
eh?), is approximately 240 million. The UN Committee on the Control of
Small Arms has recently estimated that there are approximately 800
million small arms in the world.
What you have heard here on the list is that there are more guns than
automobiles in the US. I know it because I said it, and I backed it up.
Mike Lorrey
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