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1. This guy is wrong, there aren’t 310 million guns, there are over 400 million. http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2017/01/2016-record-year-for-nics-background.html

2. “Pew Research Center polling shows that around 37 percent of Americans report that an adult in their household owns a gun.” Who says that’s an accurate count of how many households ACTUALLY have a gun? IMHO, it means that only 37% of people are stupid enough to ADMIT having a gun in the house.

3. “Perhaps we’ve passed the point where we can usefully ask why some Americans are armed to the teeth and others aren’t.” Maybe some can’t afford more than 1 or 2? Maybe people in a city don’t see the need to own a variety of rifles, because they have no place close to practice with them, and they don’t hunt? Who cares? The only point important to me is that any adult without a violent felony should be able to buy as many guns as they both want and can afford to buy - anything else is an infringement upon the right to keep and bear arms.

4. “At what point, however, does the unabated and loosely regulated domestic arms race render us all potential victims?” Hey, numbnuts, we are ALL potential victims - and such was the case well before firearms were even invented. Ever look at crime stats (such as they were) from England in the 14th Century? Yeah, thought so...well, they show that the rate of violent crime was WAY higher than all but the worst places on Earth (Somalia, South Africa, Afghanistan, Chicago, Detroit) - and the weak could not fight back or deter such violence because they could not wield swords effectively or at all...but most everyone can handle a handgun, and an 85-pound grandma can kill a 275-pound gang-banger.

This guy is a bit of an idiot - but at least he doesn’t come right out and say that we should ban guns.