Reply #50: There is no need. [View All]

[gorfle]

Even if unreported crime is 100%, and we say there are 1,600,000 firearm incidents a year, the percentage is of firearms and firearm owners involved in crime are still astonishingly low.

1,600,000 firearm incidents out of 50,000,000 firearm owners: 3.2%
1,600,000 firearm incidents out of 250,000,000 firearms: 0.64%

If we use the 80,000,000 firearm owner figure often cited, the percentage drops to 2%

So even if there are twice as many crimes as reported, the fact is the overwhelming majority of firearm owners - 96.8%+, and the overwhelming majority of firearms - 99.36% - are not involved in crime.

Even if there were five times the amount of firearm incidents as reported, it would still be a drop in the bucket compared to the number of owners and firearms that are not involved in crime.