The answer is, all of them, if they are all owned by the government.
NEWS FLASH!!!! Guns don’t kill, people do!
Guns are neither good or evil but merely hardware.
My tag line says it all.
37 percent of Americans report that an adult in their household owns a gun. ...................... ???? and you need to know this information, why? NOYFB!
They have to guess who owns a gun and who does not. I suspect that there are quite a few people with a revolver or shotty tucked away who always answer surveys “nope, not me!”
How many are too many? I’ll let you know when I get enough
It’pretty tough to have less than three, not counting 22LRs.
I need at least one more than the maximum number you think I should have.
“The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower”
-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.
Yeah - if cleaning them all takes less than one bottle of Hoppes #9, then you need more so the smell of freedom has a chance to spread through the house.....
“A handful of Americans own most of the nations’ guns.”
This is a flat out lie as well as a favorite liberal meme: “more and more guns in fewer and fewer hands”, which implies that gun owners are politically insignificant due to their small & dwindling numbers, and can be safely ignored by those in Congress who seek to limit and/or outlaw gun ownership.
Liberals sometimes learn, but not for long. After the 1994 blowout when Republicans gained majorities in Congress following passage of the `assault weapons’ ban, liberals ruefully admitted that “guns kill at the polls”.
Now they try to minimize by altered perception the number of gun owners in America, especially first time gun owners, which is like trying to escape a grizzly bear by looking at him through the wrong end of binoculars.
Unlike Mr. Morris, I plan to NEVER be a victim, because I plan to go about lawfully and peaceably ARMED everywhere I can. And a few places I "can't."
This article is nonsense.
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.
re: “How many guns are too many?”
First, as with all things consumable,, it is THE AFTER MARKET, that for the logically thinking gun owner, is the answer.
The manufactured firearm can become, though possibly in a safe, “a dust collector”, IF any and all things ‘aftermarket’, become too costly or scarce. The “geek in all of us” can opt for the latest optical widget, the latest ‘set of grips’ or “stock’, “compensators”, “magazines made from unobtanium”, and so on. The “ammo buff” will find, at no expense spared, that “neutonian mass supremo veloce”.
And then ... comes the maintenance expenses. Gun greases and oils ‘made to withstand Siberian summers’, but not stain clothing. Gun cleaning kits, both those designed by Earth’s military forces, and those endorsed by gun manufacturers, and the little throw-aways that come part and parcel with them. Table mats to withstand corrosive acids, but not harm the environment. Workstands that will not mar that precious smokepole, not to mention the dining room table your grandparents gave you. Ammunition boxes, firearm cases, and in some quasi-Communist States, mandated combination-controlled lockboxes, to keep you from acquiring your firearm in a hurry in the dead of night and darkness.
Purchasing any firearm opens the Pandora’s Box, to all sorts of after-market expenses. Yet we gun owners do so with that “Oooo, pretty!” sparkle in our eyes, and that thought of ‘Wait’ll the folks at the range see THIS!”
The answer? YOUR BUDGET!
If we removed every gun in the US, we would still have crime.
If we removed every criminal in the US, we’d have little or no crime.
Which above method is most efficient?
When asked if Americans have too many guns I have often replied. Why don’t you ask your wife or daughters if they have too many shoes or clothes in their closets?
In other words it is really none of their business to ask such questions.
Well Simon, some people enjoy being lambs to the slaughter, others actually believe that the police's job is to protect them (nothing could be further from the truth), we call those people fools, others are pacifists that refuse to protect themselves and their families, we call them stoopid fools.
Then there are those who have guns for protection and those who have multiple guns because we recognize that a gun is a tool and no one tool fits every need, also a whole lot of us just enjoy the hell out of the shooting sport and different guns give us different kinds of enjoyments.
Tell me Mr. green what your response would be if I were to say we need to look at the First Amendment because we have too many fools and dangerous journalists attempting to impose their fickle views and limitations on the enumerated rights of others?
All this tells us, is that 37% of poll respondents answered the question truthfully. It does not tell us the actual percentage of Americans who own guns.