There are over 130 million homes in the US - and somebody keeps saying "they" are going to go door to door searching them for guns. It's The End Of The World As We Know It all over again.
Let's do the math -
Take my metro for example. About 23,000 "housing units," which include separate apartments, and about 90 cops to search each and every one. Two military units, one USAR MP, another NG Engineer, with about 400 soldiers, tops, and a medical unit. Plan on a 50% non participation rate, leaving 250 to search.
It takes about 10 people to rapidly search a building of normal home sized proportions, which leaves about one per room at minimum. They have to look in every piece of furniture, dumping the contents, then examine the ceiling, walls, and floor, all while moving things out of the way. They will be looking the most for concealed hiding places between studs, under the rugs and flooring, under the house if it has a crawl space, and in the attic, regardless of whether it has access. What looks like solid construction may simply be deceptive. Given a thorough search it would take about one day, including the ground outside the house, plantings, and trees, then outbuildings and sheds.
Of the 250 workers that's 25 teams, about 25 dwellings a day, and they will need ground radar to cover every square inch for buried guns. Ground radar costs about $15,000 minimum each and they only build them to order - long lead times should be expected.
And that is allowing about one hour per room, with whatever time is left to search the grounds. An 8 hour day per property with ten workers is about as thorough as time allows. 125 a week is 6,500 a year, divided into the 23,000 dwellings is about 28% of the job done each year.
And those cops and soldiers aren't doing anything else - no traffic stops, no investigations, no catching speeders, thieves, or going to training, no deployments, nada. New day, new house, tear it up, dump everything, anger another taxpayer and trash their home.
Yeah, sure. They can't even keep up with people moving guns around the town. You see them coming and move the guns to the oldest boys house, after its nearly demolished you move them back. There is no possible way to find them all, and nobody to impose a curfew when they have to go home and sleep -
Do you now see why It's Not Going To Happen? In my metro alone it would take three and a half years of searching. The few who would even start doing it would quit after seeing angry faces, hate and discontent every working day they did it.
Do it faster? Then you have to accept that there will be exponentially more guns not found, and that defeats the purpose of the whole exercise. "They" can't find the guns sold openly in bad metro neighborhoods - how are they going to find them in miles and miles of suburbs where people can hide them cross town?
They aren't going to come knocking on your door. Anybody - liberal or gun nut - who suggests it isn't thinking it thru, which is very much the point. They are just trolling, either for political or personal hijinks. Door to door confiscation in a thorough and planned approach will be completely unsuccessful. There are too many guns and too many homes with too few people to do it. It's Not Going To Happen.
Let's do the math -
Take my metro for example. About 23,000 "housing units," which include separate apartments, and about 90 cops to search each and every one. Two military units, one USAR MP, another NG Engineer, with about 400 soldiers, tops, and a medical unit. Plan on a 50% non participation rate, leaving 250 to search.
It takes about 10 people to rapidly search a building of normal home sized proportions, which leaves about one per room at minimum. They have to look in every piece of furniture, dumping the contents, then examine the ceiling, walls, and floor, all while moving things out of the way. They will be looking the most for concealed hiding places between studs, under the rugs and flooring, under the house if it has a crawl space, and in the attic, regardless of whether it has access. What looks like solid construction may simply be deceptive. Given a thorough search it would take about one day, including the ground outside the house, plantings, and trees, then outbuildings and sheds.
Of the 250 workers that's 25 teams, about 25 dwellings a day, and they will need ground radar to cover every square inch for buried guns. Ground radar costs about $15,000 minimum each and they only build them to order - long lead times should be expected.
And that is allowing about one hour per room, with whatever time is left to search the grounds. An 8 hour day per property with ten workers is about as thorough as time allows. 125 a week is 6,500 a year, divided into the 23,000 dwellings is about 28% of the job done each year.
And those cops and soldiers aren't doing anything else - no traffic stops, no investigations, no catching speeders, thieves, or going to training, no deployments, nada. New day, new house, tear it up, dump everything, anger another taxpayer and trash their home.
Yeah, sure. They can't even keep up with people moving guns around the town. You see them coming and move the guns to the oldest boys house, after its nearly demolished you move them back. There is no possible way to find them all, and nobody to impose a curfew when they have to go home and sleep -
Do you now see why It's Not Going To Happen? In my metro alone it would take three and a half years of searching. The few who would even start doing it would quit after seeing angry faces, hate and discontent every working day they did it.
Do it faster? Then you have to accept that there will be exponentially more guns not found, and that defeats the purpose of the whole exercise. "They" can't find the guns sold openly in bad metro neighborhoods - how are they going to find them in miles and miles of suburbs where people can hide them cross town?
They aren't going to come knocking on your door. Anybody - liberal or gun nut - who suggests it isn't thinking it thru, which is very much the point. They are just trolling, either for political or personal hijinks. Door to door confiscation in a thorough and planned approach will be completely unsuccessful. There are too many guns and too many homes with too few people to do it. It's Not Going To Happen.
