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Stupid gun dorks are idiots
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/05/28/1302481/-Stupid-gun-dorks-are-idiots?detail=email[center]
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A couple of stipulations—this doesn't refer to those who live in the country and need their guns for either genuine protection or to hunt their own food. Those guys are lugging around Winchesters, Remingtons and Rugers. Not AR-15s. This doesn't refer to those who collect guns out of genuine historical interest, as opposed to "collecting" themselves their own private arsenal (no one is going around shooting up schools with flintlocks).
Nah, we're talking about those fetishists who think their guns make them macho rebel defenders of freedoms, WOLVERINES! Yeah, those assholes. The ones who have bought a record number of guns and ammo and extra-capacity magazines because a black guy was elected president. Those.
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Reality is that gun ownership is on the decline.
The gun ownership rate has fallen across a broad cross section of households since the early 1970s, according to data from the General Social Survey, a public opinion survey conducted every two years that asks a sample of American adults if they have guns at home, among other questions... The household gun ownership rate has fallen from an average of 50 percent in the 1970s to 49 percent in the 1980s, 43 percent in the 1990s and 35 percent in the 2000s, according to the survey data, analyzed by The New York Times.
In 2012, the share of American households with guns was 34 percent, according to survey results released on Thursday.
Nah, we're talking about those fetishists who think their guns make them macho rebel defenders of freedoms, WOLVERINES! Yeah, those assholes. The ones who have bought a record number of guns and ammo and extra-capacity magazines because a black guy was elected president. Those.
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Reality is that gun ownership is on the decline.
The gun ownership rate has fallen across a broad cross section of households since the early 1970s, according to data from the General Social Survey, a public opinion survey conducted every two years that asks a sample of American adults if they have guns at home, among other questions... The household gun ownership rate has fallen from an average of 50 percent in the 1970s to 49 percent in the 1980s, 43 percent in the 1990s and 35 percent in the 2000s, according to the survey data, analyzed by The New York Times.
In 2012, the share of American households with guns was 34 percent, according to survey results released on Thursday.
As mentioned elsewhere in the article: "Yes, Americans are wising up the idiocy of packing heat in this modern day and age. Just about a third of households have a gun now, and the trend is clear. Gun owners are shrinking themselves into a fringe. A well-armed fringe, sure, but still a fringe."
The demographics are changing, and no matter how much the right-wing Second Amendment absolutists, and the NRA apologists wish it weren't so, guns are no longer "cool." The gun control movement in this country is growing daily, and all the gun nut crowd can do is attack the messengers - not the message.
Support a gun control organization of your choice today in any way that you can, and help to rid this country of the scourge of gun violence brought about, and supported, by the right-wing gun lobby.
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