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Name a point in USA’s 240 year history that private gun ownership was not common.



What percentage do you consider common? And if you're interested why don't you do some digging and give a graph of gun ownership over those 240 years. It might actually be interesting.


Go ahead an school me. I can't wait for the sources from one of Bloomberg's antigun groups, or out of the wing of Harvard he funds for the same effect. PLEASE make it something from Hemmenway, I do so love his flavor of "science".

Gun ownership has always been common. I didn't say more or less common than any point to compare to.

We're lucky it's more common now than in previous points in history. You just don't know it yet.


Firstly, weapons ownership of any kind is much lower than it was historically in my country, and yet we survive.

Secondly, I have no interest in schooling you. You're an American, right? No free education for you. Pay for it!

Thirdly, I was being serious. Do you actually know what the data look like or are you guessing?




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