[george76]

In our day, only about 45 percent of households own a gun, whereas gun ownership in Colonial America was much higher, as measured by probate records. Guns were bequeathed to the next generation in about 70 percent of cases.

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[george76]

guns were cheap, readily available and essentially everywhere. ..

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[Dick Bachert]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j73SsNFgBO4

[supercat]

In our day, only about 45 percent of households own a gun, whereas gun ownership in Colonial America was much higher, as measured by probate records. Guns were bequeathed to the next generation in about 70 percent of cases.

Further, ownership was almost certainly even higher than such records would suggest. Consider: would the number of four-function calculators appearing in probate records be higher in 1966 or 2006?

[sig226]

The New York Post is waffling on the second amendment again. They were pretty good, but then Bloomberg started his illegal straw purchase campaign. The Post jumped on the bandwagon, printing the usual liberal crap about the easy availability of handguns, saturday night specials, etc. Now they are back to promoting firearms ownership.

There must be some very interesting politics in the editorial board there.