Op-Ed Insists Half the Nation’s Guns Are Owned By Just 3% Of Americans

[Dr. Evil]

http://bearingarms.com/bob-o/2016/1...l&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

"When I want to learn about firearms in the United States, I do what anyone on the editorial board of the Los Angeles Times would do: I turn to an androgynous philosophy professor at a tiny art school in Maryland who has probably never seen a gun in person."

 

[tirwin1]

Dammit, I wanted to be part of the 1%, not 3%. Just have to go out and get a few more guns.

 

[Phauxtoe]

I tag all this stuff with the #FakeNews

 

[Koz]

I don't believe I know anyone with just one gun. The folks I know need a minute or two to give an accurate count, and then they only include the ones they want you to know about.

 

[Gunright]

What category are you in when you don't know how many you own?

 

[Robin]

III%
Robin

 

[Bvin66]

What category are you in when you don't know how many you own?

The deplorable basket?

 

[Deplorable Me]

So, the DNC contains 97% of the nation's morons.

 

[Mr. terzmo]

I see and talk to ALOT of people and the majority either feel they are special and nothing will happen to them or have a very high comfort zone with 911. They have been brainwashed into believing a gun is an "evil" appliance. Many laugh and say" I'd probably shoot myself" I can't believe all the people out there/here who are afraid of gun ownership.

 

[Deplorable Me]

 

[Celt]

They are so dumb! Half of the nations guns are at @Gunner57 s house, duh.

 

[togmaster]

Probably not true but I am doing my best.

 

[GOPerfect]

Glad to be part of such an awesome group!

 

[masterswimmer]

Yawn ...... The same fine folks who were 100% sure the beast was a shoe-in for the WH. They publish whatever fits their agenda. If I recall correctly the same 3% made their voices heard November 8th.

Nothing to see here, move along!

 

[Jmac00]

say what?????

The NRA has also pushed 23 states to pass stand your ground statutes in the past decade; these expansive self-defense laws effectively allow gun owners to escalate confrontations and turn them into deadly affairs

since when did that happen ...... WhatADumbAss

 

[Phauxtoe]

I must agree that I know very few people who just have one
I also know many people including people my father's age who have many guns they got mail order and probably aren't on the books anywhere!

I think that number is significantly higher for the number of guns in the US

 

[Jmac00]

I must agree that I know very few people who just have one
I also know many people including people my father's age who have many guns they got mail order and probably aren't on the books anywhere!

I think that number is significantly higher for the number of guns in the US

this has been one of my arguments for sometime. they government thinks there are 300 million guns in the country. The truth is, they don't have a clue. how many people have guns that were handed down from great grand fathers? How many people bought guns in the 40's through the late 60's, before the 4473 was invented. The government doesn't have a clue. they are just guessing.

 

[Robin]

Well, they're working on all those old unregistered guns in all their configurations, ref. S A F E Act. De facto registration.
Robin

 

[Jmac00]

Well, they're working on all those old unregistered guns in all their configurations, ref. S A F E Act. De facto registration.
Robin

the only thing they lack, is OUR COOPERATION.....and I don't plan on participating in their endeavors. so they are swimming against the tide

 

[ProgSpear]

and then there is this:

SCOTUS Says Yes To Gay Marriage, And (Maybe) Also Constitutional Carry; Here’s Why
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Which cited this little gem of jurisprudence:

An individual can invoke a right to constitutional protection when he or she is harmed, even if the broader public disagrees and even if the legislature refuses to act. The idea of the Constitution “was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts.” West Virginia Bd. of Ed. v. Barnette, 319 U. S. 624, 638 (1943). This is why “fundamental rights may not be submitted to a vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections."
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Seems to me that "shall not be infringed." is supported by "fundamental rights may not be submitted to a vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections."