"Gabrielle Giffords Gun Control Super PAC Raises $6.5 Million"

[jimmy the one]

8. gun hoarding

bill: I am realistic enough, however, to know that it will take time to accomplish the demise of that "pesky" part of the Bill of rights.

Thomas Jefferson didn't think the US constitution would last 19 years before needing a new one, figuring it would become outdated or unusable or america bankrupt. Yet here gunnuts think the 2ndA was planned to be everlasting. Can't understand why they worship it so. Maybe cause in mainland america, what else is there for average american to become but a 'home protector' even if that image is conjured up with phony premises by the gun lobby? people don't accept that a gun in the house is more dangerous to their family, until it bites.

CtYankee: I grew up in Texas in the 50s and as much as Texans talk about their guns, it simply wasn't a problem like it is today. We never had guns and my relatives who did maybe went out dove hunting in September or something, nothing more than that. Guns just weren't that big a deal

Same time different place; rifle owners were pretty much accepted in 60's as hunters & as home protectors with a handsome cabinet & no assault rifles or supermags, but handgun owners were generally held in suspicion unless they demonstrated bona fide need, like money carriers.
If you had a handgun you were considered suspect & a warning flag went up in people's minds, even if unwarranted. If neighbor owned several handguns parents didn't want their kids playing with their kids at their house, & some even advised walk on the other side of the street when you go past. They often tended to be racist minded too, dems too but politics has changed since then, repubs & dems sorta changing places in several aspects.
Now today, a gun owner owning 5+ guns is sorta like a 'basic' class, 10+ guns 'middlin', & 15 or more in the advanced class of gunnerdom. It's become a status symbol for some extreme gun owners. They had arsenal fees back then in 60's for that, like $200/yr for 15+ guns. This accounts, as you likely know, for the rise in gunsales, generally to the same people wanting more & more guns. Hoarding in a sense, for fear of the phantom govt boogeymen.
Some even think a gun's an investment which will appreciate in value, not realizing it takes a buyer to get a return, & who's gonna want a used or even pristine gun when they already got 10?
The silver lining is that personal gun ownership has declined from 60's from about 45% to 30%.