(Andrew Yates/Reuters)There are an absolutely insane number of guns in the United States: More than 300 million, more than one per person. This framing, Carlson explained, turned the issue of gun ownership into a divisive political one, rather than a public health crisis. And places where guns are seen as a tool for self-protection, like South Africa and Guatemala, often also have high incidences of gun violence. That angered a group of gun rights hard-liners in the membership who staged a revolt that transformed the NRA into a gun rights group virtually overnight, Winkler said. By the time the gun rights movement got started in the United States, there just weren't a lot of civilian gun owners in other places.

Source: Washington Post October 04, 2017 19:55 UTC