Posted on 09/20/2016 5:10:14 AM PDT by lowbridge
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.
Thats 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 isnt it time for our politicians to realize that they dont 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
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.
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