[marktwain]

Charts at the link for the article.

[Molon Labbie]

There is a reason Americans are buying so many guns AND carrying them.

They are sick of thugs rape, rob and pillaging polite society and they are convinced that the current administration is going to outlaw firearms.

All the armed citizens who had the forethought to buy firearms and carry them are going to be served well when George Zimmerman is acquitted.

[Erik Latranyi]

We know for sure that, thanks to the Obama Administration, firearm ownership in Mexico has risen dramatically!

[Zakeet]

The Trayvon Martin case as presented in the Media

In my opinion, anybody who believes anything published in the Main Stream Media (including the New Yorker Magazine) about anything, especially guns, is an absolute idiot!

[GonzoGOP]

According to the General Social Survey, conducted by the National Policy Opinion Center at the University of Chicago, the prevalence of gun ownership has declined steadily in the past few decades. In 1973, there were guns in roughly one in two households in the United States; in 2010, one in three. In 1980, nearly one in three Americans owned a gun; in 2010, that figure had dropped to one in five

What this survey fails to take into account is the number of people who have had all their guns fall into a lake, or get eaten by a turtle or other some such incident. It is significant that the study comes out of Chicago. It is all but illegal to own a handgun in Chicago. Does that mean the guns aren't there or just that nobody will publicly admit to having them?

It is like saying that drinking was reduced during prohibition, just because nobody would publicly admit to going to a bar. In fact drinking increased drastically in prohibition.

Much the same is happening with firearms here in Chicago. Several of my friends who never previously owned firearms have acquired them recently, others have increase the number they own. They are afraid that the ability to legally buy firearms might become impossible. In addition several have purchased cheap "Sacrificial" guns, so that if the Gov Quin or the ATFE show up in a post Hurricane Katrina like sweep they have something to turn in. After all Fedzilla knows you have a FOID card. So if you don't turn over a gun they will keep looking until they find one. On the other hand if you are a good little sheaple and hand over that cheap pistol they probably won't pull up the floor boards to find the others.

[marktwain]

[jdege]

“Between 1968 and 2012, the idea that owning and carrying a gun is both a fundamental American freedom and an act of citizenship gained wide acceptance and, along with it, the principle that this right is absolute and cannot be compromised;

And this idea was new, in 1968?

"The right of the people to bear arms shall not be infringed." The right of the whole people, old and young, men, women and boys, and not militia only, to keep and bear arms of every description, not such merely as are used by the militia, shall not be infringed, curtailed, or broken in upon, in the smallest degree;"

Nunn v. State, 1 Ga. (1 Kel.) 243 (1846).

And:

The right of a citizen to bear arms, in the lawful defense of himself or the state, is absolute. He does not derive it from the state government, but directly from the sovereign convention of the people that framed the state government. It is one of the "high powers" delegated directly to the citizen, and "is excepted out of the general powers of government." A law cannot be passed to infringe upon or impair it, because it is above the law, and independent of the law-making power.

Cockrum v. State, 24 Texas 394 (1859).

[SuperLuminal]

"Between 1968 and 2012, the idea that owning and carrying a gun is both a fundamental American freedom and an act of citizenship gained wide acceptance and, along with it, the principle that this right is absolute and cannot be compromised;..."

BS!

When I grew up (30s & 40's) guns were sold in virtually every kind of store you could find. At age 7, (1940) air rifle from a general store. At age 9, .22 bolt action came from drug store. At age 10 410/.22 O&U came from Sears. At age 12, Winchester .30 came from a general store. At age 17, M1 Garand came from the USMC as it's way of appreciation for spending the summer at their luxurious island resort.

There was never any need to "claim" or "promote" "that owning and carrying a gun is both a fundamental American freedom and an act of citizenship"

Revisionist history has always been the tool of tyrants and their supporters.