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In reply to the discussion: I keep seeing the taunt, "Obama hasn't taken away your guns" being offered by people [View all]gejohnston
(17,502 posts)64. That is about the only poll that shows a decline
but if you expand it to the 1950s, what the poll claims is the level of gun ownership is simply returning to that decade. When crime in the sixties, people went out and bought guns and left them in the sock drawer. Now adult children are discovering those guns when old age catches up with mom and dad. That is why it is easy to find a revolver from that era in really good condition in pawn shops.
Of course, more evidence shows that people are lying to the pollsters and then there is Gun Culture 2.0
I did some computer work for a Mexican immigrant not too long ago. Basically, I set up a Linux system for their kids. The guy and his wife found my card at a gun shop. Oh, he gave me the number of a really great holster maker.
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I keep seeing the taunt, "Obama hasn't taken away your guns" being offered by people [View all]
Nuclear Unicorn
Jan 2016
OP
How much money does the NRA make from gun sales and how much would they lose
Nuclear Unicorn
Jan 2016
#3
Since the majority of NRA Board members have economic interest in weapons factories
randr
Jan 2016
#4
How do you determine if someone is going to illegally use a gun and if it is discernible
Nuclear Unicorn
Jan 2016
#11
The WOD took out the 4th; the 5th -- any Tom, Dick or Harry with a watch List?
Eleanors38
Jan 2016
#95
We've been through this many times before. Insurance doesn't work the way you believe,
branford
Jan 2016
#35
Frankly, I would take that supposed 34% of US population has guns with a HUGE grain of salt
Big_Mike
Jan 2016
#36
Or you want that percentage to be much be much lower to justify your feelings as normal.
Nuclear Unicorn
Jan 2016
#47
My post merely mentions the administration because of the claims made by advocates.
Nuclear Unicorn
Jan 2016
#12
Ammosexual paranoia is not negated by my own personal support for Austrailian style arms control.
stone space
Jan 2016
#73
So the thing RKBA supporters say you want to do you admit you want to do.
Nuclear Unicorn
Jan 2016
#74
Whose brother did I attack? Whose father? What did my dead father and brother do to you?
stone space
Jan 2016
#97
You offered a lame straw man about helicopters I gave it the attention it merited.
Nuclear Unicorn
Jan 2016
#81
Militant Pacifists have disarmed more fearsome weapons than that. Never underestimate Nonviolence.
stone space
Jan 2016
#92
He has, you simply didn't get it: Militant pacifism only works against those with a conscience
friendly_iconoclast
Jan 2016
#105