Guns 'R Us: Buying Guns in America
Some Sprague's patrons require parental supervision.
Big Issues
Guns 'R Us
Fast and Furious. Conceal and carry. The Dark Knight theater shootings. In America these days, it seems like everyone is packing heat. In fact, we're the most heavily armed populace on the planet. So where do most of us go when we need a shiny new Glock or a convenient AK-47? Increasingly to mega-shops like Sprague's Sports in Yuma, Arizona. That's where Jeanne Marie Laskas ventured recently, spending a few shifts behind the counter and seeing for herself how we shop, sell, justify, and even come to love the deadliest things among us
By Jeanne Marie Laskas
Photographs by David Graham
September 2012
Out-of-state residents can purchase firearms in Arizona read the sign behind the counter at Sprague's Sports in Yuma. ASK US HOW. I asked a clerk named Ron for details. He was short, packed solid as a ham, with a crew cut and a genial demeanor. He pointed to the cavalcade of hunting rifles lined up on the long wall behind him. "Any of these you can get today—or these over here," he said, leading me to a corner of the store where two young men in ball caps and a woman with a sparkly purse were admiring a selection of AK-47's.
"You have to admit this is pretty badass," the one man was saying. He had a carbine shorty perched on his hip, Stallone-style.
"I don't know," the woman said. "To me, it looks mean."
"It's supposed to look mean."
Read More http://www.gq.com/news-politics/big-issues/201209/gun-shopping-gq-september-2012#ixzz24IrFXOY8
The right-wing - ensuring the continuing proliferation of small arms over the planet. Why do you think lax attitudes toward guns proliferate in Republican dominated states so readily?
= new reply since forum marked as read
At least that's what the gun-religionists tell us. But that's only because they're too scared to get out of bed without a gun!
At least that's what the gun-conservatives tell us. But that's only because they're to scared to get out of bed because they are legal and their neighbor might have one. See what I did there.
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=302204826
"I especially liked where she called ALL gun owners bad people"
Cite please. I think you're distorting the authors words. So much misinformation!
She is not stating that as her opinion, she is generally describing the sentiments of others. This is not an opinion article, this is a feature article. You're description of her statement is inaccurate and your understanding of various types of news articles is lacking. In short, you got nothing. Welcome to DU
Insults are par for the course in here unfortunately as you just proved. That IS her and her "group" of friends opinion of gun owners, it was stated plain as day. It was obvious what she said and what she meant. It seems to me what you are saying is that she can state a opinion and then hide behind the "sentiments of others", as if it wasn't her opinion. Ok, whatever. Welcome to DU 
Hollywood dramatization = real world to them...
...amidst your gun lust. 
I bet he wishes he'd read it a bit more carefully before posting.
Added to the file with 'Shoulder thing that goes up' and 'heat seeking bullets'. 
...I'd stop think you were nothing more than tools for a vast right-wing conspiracy. After all, it is not I who is concurrent with the opinions of Antonin Scalia, Rick Perry, and an assortment of whack-a-doodle fascists. Alas, I for thinking that the repeated obsession over such a meme is irrelevant to the very facts of life and death involved in your "hobby" is more becoming of children than of rational adults need to be chided "about that line from time to time." Is this not accurate representation of your culture?
I strongly doubt you could find a single instance where I've ever made such a proposal.
Firearms are a fairly simple subject to understand with only a minimum of research.
If the media can't get the facts right on such a simple subject, why should anyone trust them on far more complicated issues?
I personally believe that the media has an anti-RKBA agenda. I also suspect that they are willing to actually lie and distort the truth to foster that agenda.
Firearm owners have to realize that they should always handle their weapons in a responsible manner. There are an estimated 80 million gun owners in our nation. A very small percentage of the honest gun owners misuse their weapons and tragedies result.
The media also has a great responsibility to publish the facts and the truth but in my opinion it has largely failed. The citizens in our nation are not as stupid as the media believes. Consequently the media is largely distrusted.
September 22, 2011
Majority in U.S. Continues to Distrust the Media, Perceive Bias
More perceive liberal bias than conservative bias
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The majority of Americans still do not have confidence in the mass media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly. The 44% of Americans who have a great deal or fair amount of trust and the 55% who have little or no trust remain among the most negative views Gallup has measured.
The majority of Americans (60%) also continue to perceive bias, with 47% saying the media are too liberal and 13% saying they are too conservative, on par with what Gallup found last year. The percentage of Americans who say the media are "just about right" edged up to 36% this year but remains in the range Gallup has found historically.
***snip***
Implications
Americans remain largely distrusting of the news media, with 55% saying they have little or no trust in the media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly, and 60% perceiving bias one way or the other. These views are largely steady compared with last year, even as the media landscape continues to change rapidly.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/149624/majority-continue-distrust-media-perceive-bias.aspx
