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geckosfeet

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21. Gun owners. 40 million gun owners.

Reply to Paladin (Reply #12)

Tue Jan 29, 2013, 06:57 PM

Jan 2013

There are a lot more cockaroaches.

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FYI - depends where you get your numbers from
Party Identity in a Gun Cabinet

An American child grows up in a married household in the suburbs. What are the chances that his family keeps a gun in their home?

The probability is considerably higher than residents of New York and other big cities might expect: about 40 percent of married households reported having a gun in their home, according to the exit poll conducted during the 2008 presidential election.

Lets conservatively estimate that there are 50 million "married households". Lets take 40% of that - 20 million. Lets call the couple of the household "gun owners".

That's roughly 40 million people.

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Received an URGENT MESSAGE from the NRA today.... [View all] spedtr90 Jan 2013 OP

Can u send a scan copy of that to MSNBC , CNN etc?......these lies need to be called out. Nt pkdu Jan 2013 #1

No politician is his right mind would propose that... Bay Boy Jan 2013 #2

Odd. Google search for NRA "orange postcard" Bloomberg returns nothing more recent than last Oct. cherokeeprogressive Jan 2013 #3

Would Google Control-Z Jan 2013 #4

Google has this OP. Maybe this person is the very first and ONLY one to remark about cherokeeprogressive Jan 2013 #8

tell me how to post a scan and you can read it spedtr90 Jan 2013 #17

The NRA is raking it in right now. geckosfeet Jan 2013 #5

cockroaches always become active when you shine a light on them Skittles Jan 2013 #6

Yes. They do. But generally that is the intention. geckosfeet Jan 2013 #7

yeah well guess what? Skittles Jan 2013 #10

Cockaroaches are delusional cowards? geckosfeet Jan 2013 #11

It's (Roughly) 4 Million, Not (Roughly) 40 Million, NRA Members. Paladin Jan 2013 #12

cowards LOVE inflating numbers Skittles Jan 2013 #18

Are you actually calling me a coward? That's not very nice. geckosfeet Jan 2013 #22

Gun owners. 40 million gun owners. geckosfeet Jan 2013 #21

40,000,000 NRA members? Skittles Jan 2013 #19

Oh. Brother. geckosfeet Jan 2013 #23

let's start with the mentally ill people running the nra... spanone Jan 2013 #9

I noticed last week that they had appropriated the 'bagger flag as well. teamster633 Jan 2013 #13

i have a friend in AZ who gets NRA funding calls constantly- he loops a recording of himself farminator3000 Jan 2013 #14

THE TURNER DIARIES used to be sold at some gun shows at Dallas derby378 Jan 2013 #20

there is a fine line between urgent and hysterical farminator3000 Jan 2013 #15

The NRA can urgently suck a camel's ass. Erose999 Jan 2013 #16