Perhaps that explains why our sleeper cells remain sleeping and well behaved... And not acting like this:
...but then again, we do have some that come out in the San Fran area... *sigh*
Posted on 08/28/2007 10:55:28 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
U.S. most armed country with 90 guns per 100 people
By Laura MacInnis 28 minutes ago
The United States has 90 guns for every 100 citizens, making it the most heavily armed society in the world, a report released on Tuesday said.
U.S. citizens own 270 million of the world's 875 million known firearms, according to the Small Arms Survey 2007 by the Geneva-based Graduate Institute of International Studies.
About 4.5 million of the 8 million new guns manufactured worldwide each year are purchased in the United States, it said.
"There is roughly one firearm for every seven people worldwide. Without the United States, though, this drops to about one firearm per 10 people," it said.
India had the world's second-largest civilian gun arsenal, with an estimated 46 million firearms outside law enforcement and the military, though this represented just four guns per 100 people there. China, ranked third with 40 million privately held guns, had 3 firearms per 100 people.
Germany, France, Pakistan, Mexico, Brazil and Russia were next in the ranking of country's overall civilian gun arsenals.
On a per-capita basis, Yemen had the second most heavily armed citizenry behind the United States, with 61 guns per 100 people, followed by Finland with 56, Switzerland with 46, Iraq with 39 and Serbia with 38.
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I like those SIGs. Not the prettiest guns, more like fine pieces of jewelry, though.
Sure it is!
How else are ya gonna keep score?
Does a tazer count?
You have 70 firearms in the closet? ;o) (using my wife as a point of reference)
I've found that anytime you ask a woman why she has so many shoes, she replies, "You just don't understand."
And I don't.
There is a correlation between freedom and gun ownership. Is that what they’re trying to say? lol
You're the ones who hate the Pentagon, you're the ones who hate the Whitehouse, you're the ones who hate the State Capitol, the national Capitol, you're the ones who hate Israel. And yet the F-16's that fly overhead are there to protect you from the islamists who would cut your throat and throw you down a well. The very values of the West, forty years of civil rights, gay rights, feminism, reproductive choice, that's abortion, sexual madness called freedom, the right not to worship if you don't want to worship, in other words the marxist left's wild dream, is protected by the very elements that you hate in this country. You the sexually unorthodox, you the bohemian, you the poet, you the professor, you are protected by those F-16's. You are protected by the boys who go to church and went to church every Sunday. You are protected by the rock rib conservatives in this country who fly over your head, who are dying in Iraq for your sins. Civil rights, gay rights, privacy rights, abortions, sexual madness, the right to worship or not to worship, all protected by the boys from somewhere else who you spit at, who you sneer at, who you mock. They're the reason you're alive, and the reason they're dying is because of your sins. The verminous left, the Larry Flynt left as now adopted by the Democrat party itself, the Larry Flynt left is now the official party platform of the Democrat party. I'm not fooling you. Everything that Larry Flynt and his ilk stood for in the 60's and 70's has been adopted if not overtly then covertly by the Democrat party. They have accepted this debased destroyed west. They not only have accepted it as the norm, they welcome it. It's the marxist dream. The death of the family, the death of heterosexuality. Everything that the left dreamed of has come to pass in this country.
Only if it's power output is measures in megajoules
A great excuse to buy more!
LLS
The Germans make a few of the most expensive revolvers on the planet.
It’s based on an average. I’m certainly doing my part to raise the average.
It'll be easy to keep score. Zero.
Only hits count.
We’re having our first baby in early December.
Therefore, statistically speaking, I need more guns.
This is good news. So when the Islamics start their open warfare here in post-911, Americans will be defending hearth and home against the invaders.
LLS
moderatly OK for quantity, but what about QUALITY? How many .50cals? How many 20mms? How many of those EVIL LIMOUSINE PIERCING RIFLES ARE OUT THERE TO WORRY TYRANTS LIKE HENRY EARWAX? Not enough.
My problem with the NRA is that joining it in essence places you on a registry list if their data is ever stolen or confiscated by gun grabbers.
Perhaps that explains why our sleeper cells remain sleeping and well behaved... And not acting like this:
...but then again, we do have some that come out in the San Fran area... *sigh*
So 4 or 5 average Freepers combine for 90 firearms?
Yesssss!
Everyone needs at least a shotgun for home defense and a small handgun for road trips. And if you live in the country, you'll need a small caliber long gun for varmits. So your proposal would leave at least half of the population unarmed.
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