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In reply to the discussion: Why anti-gun laws will never work in US [View all]stopbush
(24,392 posts)According to the Bureau of justice Statistics for 2011:
* Adult correctional authorities supervised about 6,977,700 offenders at yearend 2011, a decrease of 1.4% during the year.
*About 2.9% of adults in the U.S. (or 1 in every 34 adults) were under some form of correctional supervision at yearend 2011, a rate comparable to 1998 (1 in every 34).
*At yearend 2011, about 1 in every 50 adults in the U.S. was supervised in the community on probation or parole while about 1 in every 107 adults was incarcerated in prison or jail.
7-million people in prison out of a nation of 300-million - that's 2.9% of Americans in prison.
I would guess that the number of "bad guys" running lose in the country (ie: not in prison) is also around 3%.
So, by disarming the "law-abiding people," you disarm 97% of the country, leaving only 3% (the "bad guys" owning guns.
Except that the "good guys" - the police - also have guns.
It would be up to law enforcement to keep those bad people in check. There are about 800,000 sworn police officers in this country, which means that each officer would be responsible for roughly EIGHT bad guys each over the course of a year.
Considering that the "bad guys" aren't out there actively being bad every minute of every day, I think our law enforcement types could handle it.