Posted on 10/31/2017 6:54:38 AM PDT by Simon Green
“It’s estimated that there are more than 310 million firearms in the United States. That’s a firearm for nearly every man, woman and child. But only a minority of Americans owns the bulk of these guns. Pew Research Center polling shows that around 37 percent of Americans report that an adult in their household owns a gun. Perhaps we’ve passed the point where we can usefully ask why some Americans are armed to the teeth and others aren’t. We champion our Second Amendment. It should remain inviolable. To neuter it would incite war. At what point, however, does the unabated and loosely regulated domestic arms race render us all potential victims?” – Phillip Morris in A handful of Americans own most of the nations’ guns: Phillip Morris [via cleveland.com]
You can only use one gun at a time you freaking dolt. And only people who are evilly intend will “make you a victim” no matter how may guns someone else ones. For that matter you have to allow someone to “make you victim”.
The answer is, all of them, if they are all owned by the government.
NEWS FLASH!!!! Guns don’t kill, people do!
Guns are neither good or evil but merely hardware.
My tag line says it all.
37 percent of Americans report that an adult in their household owns a gun. ...................... ???? and you need to know this information, why? NOYFB!
They have to guess who owns a gun and who does not. I suspect that there are quite a few people with a revolver or shotty tucked away who always answer surveys “nope, not me!”
How many are too many? I’ll let you know when I get enough
It’pretty tough to have less than three, not counting 22LRs.
I need at least one more than the maximum number you think I should have.
I suspect that a strong correlation could be made between those who possess but one gun and a long criminal record....
“The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower”
-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.
As your tagline implies, there are questions, that when asked in a public manner, imply the questioner and his fellows intend to rule over others and to subjugate them.
What is this “enough” you speak of?...
It is like “tired of winning”
They are just social myths. ;)
I gun is like a tool. There’s one for every need. You don’t use a .22 to go deer hunting and you don’t use a .300winmag to shoot rodents.
Who would report that? If any stranger asks me the answer is NUNYA.
Yeah - if cleaning them all takes less than one bottle of Hoppes #9, then you need more so the smell of freedom has a chance to spread through the house.....
“A handful of Americans own most of the nations’ guns.”
This is a flat out lie as well as a favorite liberal meme: “more and more guns in fewer and fewer hands”, which implies that gun owners are politically insignificant due to their small & dwindling numbers, and can be safely ignored by those in Congress who seek to limit and/or outlaw gun ownership.
Liberals sometimes learn, but not for long. After the 1994 blowout when Republicans gained majorities in Congress following passage of the `assault weapons’ ban, liberals ruefully admitted that “guns kill at the polls”.
Now they try to minimize by altered perception the number of gun owners in America, especially first time gun owners, which is like trying to escape a grizzly bear by looking at him through the wrong end of binoculars.
Unlike Mr. Morris, I plan to NEVER be a victim, because I plan to go about lawfully and peaceably ARMED everywhere I can. And a few places I "can't."
This article is nonsense.
1. This guy is wrong, there aren’t 310 million guns, there are over 400 million. http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2017/01/2016-record-year-for-nics-background.html
2. “Pew Research Center polling shows that around 37 percent of Americans report that an adult in their household owns a gun.” Who says that’s an accurate count of how many households ACTUALLY have a gun? IMHO, it means that only 37% of people are stupid enough to ADMIT having a gun in the house.
3. “Perhaps we’ve passed the point where we can usefully ask why some Americans are armed to the teeth and others aren’t.” Maybe some can’t afford more than 1 or 2? Maybe people in a city don’t see the need to own a variety of rifles, because they have no place close to practice with them, and they don’t hunt? Who cares? The only point important to me is that any adult without a violent felony should be able to buy as many guns as they both want and can afford to buy - anything else is an infringement upon the right to keep and bear arms.
4. “At what point, however, does the unabated and loosely regulated domestic arms race render us all potential victims?” Hey, numbnuts, we are ALL potential victims - and such was the case well before firearms were even invented. Ever look at crime stats (such as they were) from England in the 14th Century? Yeah, thought so...well, they show that the rate of violent crime was WAY higher than all but the worst places on Earth (Somalia, South Africa, Afghanistan, Chicago, Detroit) - and the weak could not fight back or deter such violence because they could not wield swords effectively or at all...but most everyone can handle a handgun, and an 85-pound grandma can kill a 275-pound gang-banger.
This guy is a bit of an idiot - but at least he doesn’t come right out and say that we should ban guns.
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