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Title: Good news! (number of guns and who has them) Wash Post
Post by: Kingcreek on March 28, 2023, 09:32:59 PM

Washinton Post article
https://www.bing.com/search?q=irreducible-problem-for-gun-control-activists-the-number-of-guns%2Far-AA19bx6B%3Focid%3Dmsedgdhp%26pc%3DU531%26cvid%3D781783b0b7014354839bab7c72c2e9a3%26ei%3D7&aqs=edge..69i57j69i60&FORM=ANAB01&PC=ACTS
Not a great article perspective but if I read the stats right...
Republicans own about 2x as many guns as Democrats
Rural Dems own about the same number as Urban Repubs and rural folks own far more than urban folks.
and there are a LOT of guns out there in civilian hands, probably too many to ban and confiscate.
Yay! Keep up the good work people!

Title: Re: Good news! (number of guns and who has them) Wash Post
Post by: 230RN on March 29, 2023, 08:54:16 AM

^ "...and there are a LOT of guns out there in civilian hands, probably too many to ban and confiscate."

Wednesday's Rant

Ah, but if they hit one person who has ten guns, that's ten guns out of circulation.

They'll do it by attrition, one technique of which is to nail a few owners at a time to the wall with rusty nails and great fanfare and publicity, thereby encouraging others to (A) turn them in or (B) hide them away where they are useless anyway.

Yeah, there are surely machine guns hidden away in European barns and attics, but what good are they where they are?

There are never too many to ban and confiscate... or render useless by having them hidden.  And the "infringe" part of the Second Amendment is gradually becoming more and more meaningless to the public and the jerks they vote into office.

I keep remembering the adage... "If it's time to bury them, it's time to dig them up."

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Go buttonhole your gun owning neighbor, even the one with an old .22 in the back of the upstairs closet, and get him or her to vote.

Edited to add "rusty nails," correct a typo

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Title: Re: Good news! (number of guns and who has them) Wash Post
Post by: HankB on March 29, 2023, 09:27:52 AM

Quote from: 230RN on March 29, 2023, 08:54:16 AM

. . .  Yeah, there are surely machine guns hidden away in European barns and attics, but what good are they where they are? . . . I keep remembering the adage... "If it's time to bury them, it's time to dig them up." . . .

Another old saying, in Q&A form:

Q:  Why do Lithuanians pour oil on their gardens?

A:  To keep the guns from rusting, of course.