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billh58

(6,641 posts)
Sun Feb 1, 2015, 05:10 PM Feb 2015

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Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
1. The Gungeoneers will take exception, no matter how obvious the truth.
Sun Feb 1, 2015, 05:40 PM
Feb 2015

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
2. I was reading information which said there would be more deaths by guns in 2015
Sun Feb 1, 2015, 06:36 PM
Feb 2015

Than auto accidents. I own guns but do not consider myself to be the gun nut who seems to think guns is everything. I am from a family of hunters, who brought home the game for the family. It would ruin venison to take it with many rounds from an AK47 or AR15. I love venison, don't care much for eating lead. I would love to see a group who is very interested in providing safety training with guns, this I could support. Just as there are people who should not drive a vehicle there are some who do not need guns, to own or use. We see in Washington state when the "open carry group" showed they immediately set up restrictions. If I go shopping I do not want to see the "open carry" group walking around, they need to show more responsibility.

Panich52

(5,829 posts)
11. The best firearm safety training group abandonded its emphasis on safety
Mon Feb 2, 2015, 12:31 AM
Feb 2015

That group is the NRA. At one time, they were the most respected firearm safety group. Their Eddie Eagle program taught kids safety above all. (Find a gun? Stop! Tell an adult). Then they drank the koolaid.

Those in the extreme gun control wing are partly to blame. Action & reaction. But it's not all their fault. As Repubs put up barricades against its members drifting towards the center, NRA followed their lead. In doing so, a respectable gun safety group who firmly held, and still holds, that the 2ndA defines an individual right, went off the deep end w/ the rest of the conservatives.

Dawson Leery

(19,366 posts)
3. Obama will be the last Democrat to ever win a sizable minority (40%) of the gun vote.
Sun Feb 1, 2015, 06:42 PM
Feb 2015

Gun ownership is being consolidated into the hands of a few right wing nuts. This is a problem.

weissmam

(905 posts)
5. but as the % of people that own firarms declines
Sun Feb 1, 2015, 07:31 PM
Feb 2015

I don't think it matters -

what is left is a bunch of right wing gun nuts in the deep south that will eventually die out

Amishman

(5,791 posts)
12. it will be interesting to see 10 years from now
Mon Feb 2, 2015, 09:10 AM
Feb 2015

where gun ownership stands.

will it be dying off as the gun owning population ages?

or will millennials buy in as their disposable income rises? Its hard to picture an under employed 20 something spending $1000 on an assault rifle when drowning in student loans.

weissmam

(905 posts)
4. as a militray small arms expert the most important fact
Sun Feb 1, 2015, 07:29 PM
Feb 2015

the number of US households that own a firearm is in steady decline makes me very happy

appalachiablue

(42,863 posts)
6. It's all about fear & insecurity, real or imagined. Clinging to one's tool, weapon for protection
Sun Feb 1, 2015, 07:34 PM
Feb 2015

is elementary, basic human nature.

 

Liberal_Stalwart71

(20,450 posts)
7. Irrational fear of black men (and women)! That's why!!
Sun Feb 1, 2015, 07:37 PM
Feb 2015

appalachiablue

(42,863 posts)
8. Irrational, scared, angry, ignorant. Racist, sexist, homophobic, anti-immigrant- the same cloth.
Sun Feb 1, 2015, 09:09 PM
Feb 2015

The Media keeps this drumbeat going 24/7. Frightened people are easy to control as Goebbels & Hitler knew.

BrotherIvan

(9,126 posts)
10. Exactly right
Mon Feb 2, 2015, 12:05 AM
Feb 2015

And they will pump up fear of blackness just to sell guns, the greedy, evil fuckers.

MisterP

(23,730 posts)
9. their own newsmagazine says AMERICA HAS ONLY 700 DAYS TO SURVIVE
Sun Feb 1, 2015, 11:14 PM
Feb 2015

like it did 2 years ago, and 4 years ago, and ...

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