He looks happy here.
Posted on 04/20/2008 5:56:22 PM PDT by shrinkermd
In words that he has come to regret, Barack Obama opined as to why he was having a hard time winning over many blue-collar voters: "They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or antitrade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
...Who are all these gun owners? Are they the uneducated poor, left behind? It turns out they have the same level of formal education as nongun owners, on average. Furthermore, they earn 32% more per year than nonowners. Americans with guns are neither a small nor downtrodden group.
Nor are they "bitter." In 2006, 36% of gun owners said they were "very happy," while 9% were "not too happy." Meanwhile, only 30% of people without guns were very happy, and 16% were not too happy.
In 1996, gun owners spent about 15% less of their time than nonowners feeling "outraged at something somebody had done." It's easy enough in certain precincts to caricature armed Americans as an angry and miserable fringe group. But it just isn't true. The data say that the people in the approximately 40 million American households with guns are generally happier than those people in households that don't have guns.
The gun-owning happiness gap exists on both sides of the political aisle. Gun-owning Republicans are more likely than nonowning Republicans to be very happy (46% to 37%). Democrats with guns are slightly likelier than Democrats without guns to be very happy as well (32% to 29%). Similarly, holding income constant, one still finds that gun owners are happiest.
Why are gun owners so happy? One plausible reason is a sense of self-reliance, in terms of self-defense or even in terms of the ability to hunt their own dinner.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
Good statistics and good psychology on gun ownershisp.
Mr. Brooks, a professor at Syracuse University's Maxwell School and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, is the author of the just-published "Gross National Happiness" (Basic Books).
So happiness really IS a warm gun?
Obama was just plain wrong. His inability to say that he was wrong says a lot about the kind of man he is and the kind of President he would be.
Having just retired and moved to Southern Oregon, I can happily say that I now don't have any geographically close friends who don't own guns.
How about antipathy to commie libs?
uh-oh...this could be a good news/ bad news sort of thing
For violence it looks like Hussien Obama has to look no further than his own backyard in Chicago. 32 shot over the weekend with 6 dead. His brothers and sisters are out of control.
I know you laughed, I heard you laugh. You laughed you laughed....
If it wasn’t in Iraq, it doesn’t count.
Bump fire a 30 round magazine. Stress will be gone.
Try it.
Another good reason for gun ownership; stress relief.
Bump fire a 30 round magazine. Stress will be gone.
Try it.
Another good reason for gun ownership; stress relief.
Bump fire a 30 round magazine. Stress will be gone.
Try it.
Another good reason for gun ownership; stress relief.
Looks like I bump fired that post.
Sorry.
He looks happy here.
Another mythology of the left lies in ruins...
I did, but it was a laugh tinged with all-consuming and overwhelming bitterness.
AND
They're coming to take me away, ha ha...
That video is awesome. It is proof as to why nobody will ever invade this country, or tyrant oppress the American people with force for as long as we embrace the 2nd amendment.
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