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Re:Half of Americans anticipate a U.S. civil war soon by prepend on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @05:08PM (#32172348)
> so what kind of fool honestly believes they are all in the hands of less than one half of the population

Seeing as how only 30% of Americans own guns [0], all the guns are literally in the hands of less than one half. So it’s not foolish to believe that. But it’s true whether I believe it or not.

[0] https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2017/06/22/the-dem...

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Re:Half of Americans anticipate a U.S. civil war soon by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @05:41PM (#32172758)
Even that source has half as many democrat-identifying people owning firearms as republican-identifying people, which is very far from "one side collects all the guns".

But yes it would appear that "less than half the population" is actually correct.

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