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In reply to the discussion: Share of Homes With Guns Shows 4-Decade Decline [View all]Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)13. The survey doesn't ask anything about gun purchases.
It asks a simple question, do you have one or more guns in your house, and has been asking the same question for 40 years.
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Let's work for a bullet free America, then they can keep their unusable guns and collect them
graham4anything
Mar 2013
#1
What if a home is burglarized, and won't bullets just get smuggled from foreign countries?
alp227
Mar 2013
#67
There are a helluva lot more people so level "rates" still mean more guns. nt
kelliekat44
Mar 2013
#93
NRA corruption of the political process for the benefit of the gun manufactures is what matters.
Warren Stupidity
Mar 2013
#11
The Brady campaign is not backed by an industry selling consumer products.
Warren Stupidity
Mar 2013
#19
They can't attract significant membership - why is there such a lack of passion for gun control?
hack89
Mar 2013
#24
That's the funny thing. No proposed legislation will actually take away any guns
hack89
Mar 2013
#81
Mayor Mike Bloomberg and the 187 mayors across America have or will defeat the NRA forever
graham4anything
Mar 2013
#68
The point is that gun owners are a minority, and gun nuts, Rkba absolutists,
Warren Stupidity
Mar 2013
#17
Fortunately the Consititution is spefically designed to protect minority rights.
hack89
Mar 2013
#27
funny how our side has to keep reminding on that point...they never seem to "get it" or
CTyankee
Mar 2013
#30
" I am not that concerned." - Oh yes you are. Part of the very reason you are *HERE* at DU
apocalypsehow
Mar 2013
#60
You go right ahead: I have no need to do so, as my side is on the Right Side of History,
apocalypsehow
Mar 2013
#64
" I am not that concerned." - Oh yes you are. Part of the very reason you are *HERE* at DU
apocalypsehow
Mar 2013
#71
So "unconcerned" is our "pro gun progressive"* here that he burns up this and other
apocalypsehow
Mar 2013
#73
Thanks for giving me a reason not to read anything else on DU for the rest of this beautiful day.
slackmaster
Mar 2013
#36
If you dislike DU so much why do you stick around, slack? You trash this place and its
apocalypsehow
Mar 2013
#74
Anyone with a sawzall, a gun safe, and children in the home is a child abuser?
hansberrym
Mar 2013
#43
That explains all the 9 year olds with black eyes totin' their dads' guns around!
Blandocyte
Mar 2013
#86
Every dang photo from a gun show is just a bunch of paranoid white guys drooling over guns.
Hoyt
Mar 2013
#34
There are good reasons only a very small percentage of gun owners are NRA members. nt
hack89
Mar 2013
#95
People serious about their gun rights will, of course, say, "No guns are in my home"
Blandocyte
Mar 2013
#85