{"id":67247,"date":"2018-06-26T07:00:49","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T12:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67247"},"modified":"2018-06-25T22:30:58","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T03:30:58","slug":"its-a-start-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67247","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s A Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Americans <a href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/culture\/report-nearly-400-million-civilian-owned-guns-america\/\">like their guns<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smallarmssurvey.org\/about-us\/highlights\/2018\/highlight-bp-firearms-holdings.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s2\">Small Arms Survey<\/span><\/a>\u00a0estimates there are\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smallarmssurvey.org\/fileadmin\/docs\/T-Briefing-Papers\/SAS-BP-Civilian-Firearms-Numbers.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s2\">393,300,000 civilian-owned firearms<\/span><\/a>\u00a0in the United States. The survey, performed by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/graduateinstitute.ch\/home\/about-us\/discover-the-institute.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s2\">the Graduate Institute of Geneva<\/span><\/a>, estimated the United States military has about\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smallarmssurvey.org\/fileadmin\/docs\/T-Briefing-Papers\/SAS-BP-Military-Firearms-Numbers.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s2\">4.5 million firearms<\/span><\/a>. It put the number of firearms owned by police throughout the United States at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smallarmssurvey.org\/fileadmin\/docs\/T-Briefing-Papers\/SAS-BP-Law-Enforcement-Firearms-Numbers.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s2\">just over 1 million<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">That means American civilians own nearly 100 times as many firearms as the U.S. military and nearly 400 times as many as law enforcement.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Let&#8217;s do the math:\u00a0 there are 8,000 homicides a year, divided among 400 million guns.\u00a0 \u00a0That means roughly one gun out of 50,000 is used in a homicide per year (assuming each gun is used once, which is far from true.<\/p>\n<p>Amerian guns are actually safer, crime-wise, than American citizens are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans like their guns: The\u00a0Small Arms Survey\u00a0estimates there are\u00a0393,300,000 civilian-owned firearms\u00a0in the United States. The survey, performed by\u00a0the Graduate Institute of Geneva, estimated the United States military has about\u00a04.5 million firearms. It put the number of firearms owned by police throughout the United States at\u00a0just over 1 million. That means American civilians own nearly 100 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grass-roots","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67248,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67247\/revisions\/67248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}