Facts show owning more than 40 guns is actually fairly common in the United States, and violence falls most heavily on the country’s poorest neighborhoods.

You’ve heard the statistics before: Americans have more guns per head than any nation on earth – along with gun violence rates that are dramatically higher than other rich, developed countries.

But these big-picture facts can be misleading. Not every American is packing heat and gun violence is intensely concentrated in small neighbourhoods.

Here’s a look at the dramatic concentration of America’s guns – and America’s violence: Gun ownership

American civilians own at least 265M (actually 393M) firearms, which gives Americans the highest rate of per capita firearm ownership in the world, with about one gun for every American.

Yemen comes in a distant second, with about 55 guns for every 100 people, according to data from the 2007 Small Arms Survey.

But surveys show that gun ownership in America is actually highly concentrated. Only 22 to 31% of Americans adults say they personally own a gun.

Rates of personal and household gun ownership appear to have declined over the past decades – roughly two-thirds of Americans today say they live in a gun-free household. By contrast, in the late 1970s, the majority of Americans said they lived in a household with guns.

Most of America’s gun owners have relatively modest collections, with the majority of gun owners having an average of just three guns, and nearly half owning just one or two, according to a 2015 survey by Harvard and Northeastern researchers, which gave the most in-depth estimate of Americans’ current patterns of gun ownerships.

But America’s gun super-owners, have amassed huge collections. Just 3% of American adults own a collective 133m firearms – half of America’s total gun stock. These owners have collections that range from eight to 140 guns, the 2015 study found. Their average collection: 17 guns each.

After the Las Vegas shooting, officials said the killer had 23 guns in his hotel room, and another 19 at home. Some Americans asked, shocked, why one person purchasing so many guns had not set off any red flags.

Poster Comment:

So if 1 in a 100 of the (mostly) men who own 41 guns or more got worried about the government rounding up gun owners went crazy and started shooting the naughty persons on their naught and nice list, how many people would that be?

1% of 7.7 million would be 77,000 active shooters. 1/10th of 1% would be 7,700 active shooters. America has 3,143 in its 50 states. That is an average of 100,000 plus population per county though most are quite small. But that would roughly be 2.3 shooters per 100,000 or 23 in a city of one million.

But this would not happen out of the blue. Suppose we had Nationwide Food Riots. And a mere 20,000 men went down their naughty list.

Suppose the FEDs got all their men together and sent 50,000 men out with 50,000 local cops to take away the guns of the 7.7 million with 41 or more guns each. Suppose 10 Feds and cops per house are able to take down 3.5 houses in 8 hours. That is 35,000 of the 7.7 million most dangerous men in America. What happens when you get your crews assembled for Day 3? How many of the 7.7 million would have gone on the offensive?

I wrote this back when Obama was president but it still holds today:

https://vidrebel.wordpress.com/2014/02/02/screw-up-8-million-americans-are-on-the-list-to-be-disappeared/