Re: Disc brake maintenance tips

On 7/9/2024 8:51 AM, AMuzi wrote:

On 7/8/2024 8:38 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 7/8/2024 5:52 PM, AMuzi wrote:
... it's partially a business strategy to lobby for even looser gun laws, so even more guns will be sold. True or not, the number of guns in U.S. circulation is insane and rising. See the top graph at https://www.thetrace.org/2023/03/guns-america-data-atf-total/
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 meh.
If bicycles had a similarly long useful life, the curve would be the same.

Nope. If it were simply long service life, the number of guns in circulation would rise roughly as the population rose; or in other words, the number of guns per capita would remain roughly constant.
As it is, between 1950 and 2024, U.S. population slightly more than doubled. Number of guns increased by a factor of ten.
"The world is SO dangerous! You GOTTA have a gun for self defense! And ARs are so macho!" have all worked great for the gun industry and the street punk industry.
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- Frank Krygowski