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P5Wl··on How Finland Rebranded Itself as a Literary Country
That statistic is not correct, anyway. It's an outdated estimate by a single entity, with an unsubstantiated claim for a huge number of unregistered weaponry.

More commonly accepted estimates put Finland in line with many other European countries at around 30 firearms per 100 people. Most of those are indeed hunting rifles. (In Finland, like perhaps most other European countries, you need a license to buy or legally own a firearm. A gun license requires an acceptable reason like hunting or sports; notably, self defense is not one for the general public.)

P5Wl··on A world of free movement would be $78T richer
A world of free movement will not have a single welfare state.

Even after decades, and generations, immigrants from certain regions have absolutely abysmal rates of employment in more developed countries they have settled in. How would an even larger scale of immigration flip the trend we can already witness, a complete 180 degrees? Many seem completely content on living on benefits alone, or fully unable to find employment with the skill set they have gathered, even when they have born in the country where the natives fare much better. The way I see it, the money that is being spent on these people could be spent with a far better interest elsewhere.

78 trillion, truly, is a fantasy pulled from a behind.