Mon Dec 31, 2012, 06:43 AM

Sad thing about the frenzied gun buyers

Of those who are shot, most will have been shot by accident with their own guns or by someone they know, not by someone they fear.

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11 replies	Author	Time	Post
Sad thing about the frenzied gun buyers (Original post)	kelliekat44	Dec 2012	OP
The solution to that problem	Capt. Obvious	Dec 2012	#1
It's a self-inflicted problem/self-fulfilling prophecy...	CJCRANE	Dec 2012	#2
Statisticly false	pipoman	Dec 2012	#3
Overall gun ownership has been dropping for at least fifty years	Fumesucker	Dec 2012	#9
Yet so many hereabouts	pipoman	Dec 2012	#10
If one person owned a billion guns and kept them all completely secure	Fumesucker	Dec 2012	#11
My in-laws are insane gun people	Capt. Obvious	Dec 2012	#4
I sincerely believe it isn't the fear of having them taken away	lunatica	Dec 2012	#5
They can remake The Christmas Story	RandiFan1290	Dec 2012	#6
My suspision is that the people who are buying the guns now	madokie	Dec 2012	#7
Exactly ...	etherealtruth	Dec 2012	#8

Response to kelliekat44 (Original post)

Mon Dec 31, 2012, 06:46 AM

Capt. Obvious (1,826 posts)

1. The solution to that problem

is more guns

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Response to kelliekat44 (Original post)

Mon Dec 31, 2012, 07:01 AM

CJCRANE (13,339 posts)

2. It's a self-inflicted problem/self-fulfilling prophecy...

they believe the government is coming to take their guns away, so they buy more guns, which causes more bad things to happen and so more people want to take their guns away...so they buy more guns...

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Response to CJCRANE (Reply #2)

Mon Dec 31, 2012, 08:44 AM

pipoman (10,395 posts)

3. Statisticly false

Demonstrably, more guns does not equal more gun crime or gun death. Rates of gun related violent crime have been on a decline for many years, even as every day there are more guns in private ownership than the day before..

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Response to pipoman (Reply #3)

Mon Dec 31, 2012, 09:00 AM

Fumesucker (31,585 posts)

9. Overall gun ownership has been dropping for at least fifty years

Fewer people owning guns leads to fewer gun deaths.

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Response to Fumesucker (Reply #9)

Mon Dec 31, 2012, 09:09 AM

pipoman (10,395 posts)

10. Yet so many hereabouts

want to limit the number of firearms people can own or buy. Further there is no correlation between how many guns are in private hands and crime rates. More guns does not equal more crimes.

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Response to pipoman (Reply #10)

Mon Dec 31, 2012, 09:18 AM

Fumesucker (31,585 posts)

11. If one person owned a billion guns and kept them all completely secure

Then if the rest of us had no guns at all you would still have a society with three guns more or less per person and no gun deaths.

It's rather like that old statistic of Bill Gates walking into a bar, the average net worth jumps from near zero to billions.

The only thing I can figure out about it is that it's a complicated relationship between gun owning and gun deaths, on the one hand if there were zero guns there would be zero gun deaths.

How many gun deaths would there be if everyone carried at all times? Personally I think there would be a lot, people are careless and half of them more or less are of less than average intelligence.

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Response to CJCRANE (Reply #2)

Mon Dec 31, 2012, 08:46 AM

Capt. Obvious (1,826 posts)

4. My in-laws are insane gun people

They honestly believe it's people like them that are keeping the government from rounding us up and putting us all in FEMA camps. The more guns they hoard the more liberty we all have.

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Response to kelliekat44 (Original post)

Mon Dec 31, 2012, 08:46 AM

lunatica (28,846 posts)

5. I sincerely believe it isn't the fear of having them taken away

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as much as it's the fear of not having them to defend themselves from other gun owners.

Who fears anyone who doesn't own or who refuses to own guns? No one.

They really do fear each other.

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Response to kelliekat44 (Original post)

Mon Dec 31, 2012, 08:50 AM

RandiFan1290 (1,785 posts)