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2017-10-25 -Land of the Free

What Happens When Very Few People Own Quite a Few Guns?

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Posted by badanov 2017-10-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 I wonder how this guy would explain me. I've never owned a gun, nor have I even fired one. That said, I'd fight for my right to own a gun as hard as just about anyone reading this comment.

Posted by Raj 2017-10-25 01:15|| 2017-10-25 01:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Hernia?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-10-25 02:59|| 2017-10-25 02:59|| Front Page Top

#3 Nope - brown belt in Shotokan karate. Beating the crap out of the opponent's more my style. At least it was until about five years ago.

Posted by Raj 2017-10-25 03:09|| 2017-10-25 03:09|| Front Page Top

#4 I was referring to the title.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-10-25 03:29|| 2017-10-25 03:29|| Front Page Top

#5 All righty, then...

Posted by Raj 2017-10-25 04:06|| 2017-10-25 04:06|| Front Page Top

#6 Dude needs to go back to the Anbar Awakening. It wasn't till the locals decided it was in their own interest that the tide turned against the insurgency in Iraq even with all the might of the US deployed on site. Unless the 'enforcers' and their families are moved into secure cantonments, they're all compromised in enforcing the grabbers wet dreams. An insurgency is exactly what they'll get.

And notice that none of them ever address the real 'gun' violence is confined to recognizable specific communities. If you can broad brush whites* for slavery over a hundred years ago, why can't you address other communities for their actions today?

*of which so many arrived in the post-Civil War mass immigration of the late 19th Century.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-10-25 07:32|| 2017-10-25 07:32|| Front Page Top

#7 P2k, you forgot to mention the political Party responsible and willing to continue to do so.

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2017-10-25 09:19|| 2017-10-25 09:19|| Front Page Top

#8 So lets says he is right. Only 10% own guns, we hide behind the 2nd to stop all gun legislation. The other 90% back down, why? The simple answer is they know once the USG starts to take down our rights the wont stop with guns. The people fear the USG more than they fear gun owners. Plain and simple.

Posted by 49 Pan 2017-10-25 09:29|| 2017-10-25 09:29|| Front Page Top

#9 Big, frickin' long, long ass article but I couldn't get past the second paragraph when he started talking about the ten percent versus the ninety percent. Where does he get those numbers? I wondered for a moment and then I stopped.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-10-25 09:40|| 2017-10-25 09:40|| Front Page Top

#10 The people fear the USG more than they fear gun owners.

Exactly.

I never wanted a gun until Obama got into the White House. Now he's out of the White House and I don't want a gun anymore. It's a lot of money to spend and a lot to learn about something that I will most likely never use. I don't live in a rural area where I have to shoot rattlesnakes and I don't live in a high crime area where I have to worry about getting mugged. But if I wanted a gun, I'd want it and I wouldn't want some government weener telling me I couldn't have it.

What Happens When Very Few People Own Quite a Few Guns? Maybe one of them can lend me one of his until the trouble is over.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-10-25 09:52|| 2017-10-25 09:52|| Front Page Top

#11 Liberals say that Cops (and now the government) are gun-happy fascists in one breath and then suggest the people disarm in the next.

Perhaps the inconsistency in their positions has something to do with their opinions not gaining traction.

Posted by rjschwarz 2017-10-25 10:48|| 2017-10-25 10:48|| Front Page Top

#12 You gotta love the two conflicting narratives

"Thinking that the government is going to be taken over by gun-hating lefties, they add to their arsenals."

Followed by;

"How they think they would win against the weaponry of the modern military is anyone’s guess, of course, but that is beside the point here."

IOW, the government doesn't want to take your guns you paranoid freak. But if they wanted to there wouldn't be anything you could do to stop them.
Feel better now?

Posted by DepotGuy 2017-10-25 15:25|| 2017-10-25 15:25|| Front Page Top

#13 Maybe one of them can lend me one of his until the trouble is over.
Abu, there are any number of us who would have been happy to do so if it was not for an epidemic of canoe overturnings when we were out on the river...

Posted by Glenmore 2017-10-25 22:11|| 2017-10-25 22:11|| Front Page Top

#14 (Which may be why the article finds only 10% own guns...)

Posted by Glenmore 2017-10-25 22:12|| 2017-10-25 22:12|| Front Page Top

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