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To: Smokin' Joe
Oh, were you only pretending that 2.5+ million Americans defend themselves with firearms according to the NRA/ILA primarily in rural areas?

You have no source for that either.

162 posted on 07/23/2006 1:14:55 PM PDT by Mojave
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To: Mojave
City folks and idiots are under the impression that they can punch 911 in on their phone and get help befor they would get a pizza delivered if they called for that at the same time.

People who live where they don't even deliver pizzas have no such illusions. It is apparent to me that no matter what I write, you are DETERMINED TO MISINTERPRET IT for the sake of being argumentative. You argue like a liberal. Give it a rest, allready, ROSCOE.

AS for data, here:

In the United States, about 35-36% of households have a gun and 22% have a handgun. Long guns are more commonly owned than handguns: 14% of households have only long guns; 6% have only handguns and 16% have both long guns and handguns. Twenty-four percent of respondents surveyed personally own a gun and 15% personally own a handgun. Men are much more likely to own guns than women: 41.7% of men and 28.5% of women report having a gun in the household, and 39.2% of men, but only 10.2% of women, personally own a gun. Rural households are much more likely than urban ones to have guns (65.2% vs. 21.7%). Household gun ownership ranges from 26% in the Northeast to 44.2% in the South.source

With three times as many armed households in rural areas, who has the tools to defend themselves? Connect the dots, roscoe.

166 posted on 07/23/2006 5:28:46 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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