Study: 3 percent owns nearly 50 percent of all guns (barf alert)

Ny daily news ^ | September 19, 2016 | Gersh Kuntzman

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America is being held hostage by a tiny minority of absolute lunatics for whom owning two, three, eight or even 10 guns is simply not enough.

That’s the main finding of the first comprehensive study of gun owners in two decades.

Among the many findings — that handgun purchases are soaring, that Americans wrongly believe they need more guns for personal safety, and that there are more privately held guns in this country than cars — is a bit of news so shocking, it should embolden our spineless lawmakers in Washington:

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So if gun owners represent a smaller portion of our population — and nearly half of all guns are owned by dead-enders — isn’t it time for our politicians to realize that they don’t have to listen to them anymore?

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Frankly, this self-defense argument should be handled by the psychiatrists of all these fraidy cats rather than our politicians, who should be debating concrete facts, not unfounded fears.

Worse, the only thing the self-defense crowd has to fear is the self-defense crowd itself: Studies show that people who die in accidental shootings were more than three times as likely to have had a firearm in their home.

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[Billthedrill]

It is a bit of a mystery to me how, exactly, the NRA is "terrorizing" liberals when it's the liberals who want to do things to the NRA members, not vice versa. Here we are holding 97% of the country "hostage". How does that work, exactly?

What Kuntzman actually means is that a minority of the country's citizens are insisting on maintaining their civil rights against his intention to curtail them. That, I am afraid, is how civil rights work.