Americans own nearly half the privately owned guns in the world

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I don't have a count in my head of all my guns. Must be a couple dozen.

I'm doing my part. :)
 
What were the British marching on Concord and Lexington to seize?
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Stockpiles of cannon shot and barrels of powder that were looted from british arsenals by patriot militias...

Not exactly a bushel of POGs
 
I'm trying to do my part.
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Me too, but I buy almost all my guns used, so they are already here in USA, and in private hands. I guess I'm not helping our stat's that much.
 
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Stockpiles of cannon shot and barrels of powder that were looted from british arsenals by patriot militias...

Not exactly a bushel of POGs
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Umm....much of that powder belonged to the militias themselves at least it was meant FOR the militias. The British were the ones thinking of going around and taking it leading up to the Revolution, and when the British hinted at that, the colonials spirited it away to Concord so the British couldn't take it.

...It was less about munitions being plundered and more about the British thinking that the munitions belonged to the government regardless.
 
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This reminds me of the move "Lord of War", one of my favorite movies. So paraphrasing the movie's opening scene, "Americans own half of all privately owned firearms in the world. What will it take to own the other half?"
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I think the question is something like "how to ARM the other half of people" in the world or something...
 
jrdolall, great post and well thought out. I have had to use a gun for self defence, fortunatly, just knowing it was handy gave me a sense of confidence that got rid of the perpetrator and I didn't have to pull the trigger. I'm just grateful that my gun was there. I was over 100 miles from law inforcement.

Queen, why wait till 2017? Let's all go buy a new gun today.
 
Should make other countrys think twice about invading :)

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GBExpat/Blackstone: Your home country has too few because I bought up six Enfields (#4/#5s).

I've visited your beautiful country. Do many people there realize that during the "Phoney War" of 1940, the US govt. supposedly asked for citizens to donate rifles for shipment to England, in case of an invasion over the Channel (German "Op. Seelowe"/Sealion)?

There might be no modern parallel, but what if riots return to your urban centers every summer? How do they view the off-duty British soldier who was slowly murdered on the street, and very near his base?
A legally-armed citizen might have stopped the attack by those savages.
 
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GBExpat/Blackstone: Your home country has too few because I bought up six Enfields (#4/#5s).

I've visited your beautiful country. Do many people there realize that during the "Phoney War" of 1940, the US govt. supposedly asked for citizens to donate rifles for shipment to England, in case of an invasion over the Channel (German "Op. Seelowe"/Sealion)?

There might be no modern parallel, but what if riots return to your urban centers every summer? How do they view the off-duty British soldier who was slowly murdered on the street, and very near his base?
A legally armed citizen might have stopped the attack by those savages.
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Fortunately the Battle of Britain made that unnecessary. Regarding the riots of two summers ago, the attitude of most people is that it was a miracle only 2 (sp?) people were killed. They think that if more guns were in circulation, the death toll would have been much higher. In the case of the murdered soldier earlier this year, I don't think the outcome would have changed much if there had been armed citizens at the scene. He was struck by a car and then hacked to death in a lightning fast attack. However, an armed citizen would have prevented further loss of life, had the two assailants turned on others in the street.

Just my two pence :)
 
Unfortunately, the whole piece is one of those self-congratulatory, un-self-aware pieces where a gun control advocate views every aspect of life through their own slant.

The short version: everyone sensible wants to control guns, except for a small sliver of a minority who exercise power disproportionate to their size and impose their crazy, dangerous will on all of America.

In asking these questions, the families of Sandy Hook Promise began their transformation from deeply sympathetic victim-advocates into a force to be reckoned with in the modern gun debate. While continuing to pursue a long-range goal of limiting magazine size, they decided to focus in the near-term on legislation that could have an immediate impact on gun violence: closing the gun show and Internet loopholes by requiring that all such sales go through FFLs, who can and must run background checks. Perhaps what is most remarkable about their decision is that they were committing themselves to the passage of gun safety laws that had no actual bearing on the crime that had torn apart their own lives. The guns Adam Lanza used in his assault had been stolen from his mother, his first victim, and Nancy Lanza had been in lawful possession of those firearms—she passed background checks for their purchase and registered them (as is required in Connecticut). The families knew that legislation regulating the sales of weapons at gun shows or over the Internet would have done nothing to save their children.

A model for this kind of public-spirited thinking is the work of the 9/11 Family Steering Committee. In the years after their own tragedy, that group pursued a suite of legislative measures that included everything from creating the Department of Homeland Security to changing how intelligence is gathered and shared. Almost none of these ideas, had they been in place on September 11, would have played a role in stopping Mohammed Atta or the others. But they believed they were making the country safer for everyone, and that was enough. The same was true for the families of Sandy Hook Promise.
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Not at all surprising, but surprising to see in print.

What was it that Rahm Emannuel famously said about a crisis.....?
 
Well I'm certainly doing my part to try to increase private ownership of firearms United States. Didn't on a single one until the current president was elected.

What I'm waiting for is when they start picking out how many privately owned reloading presses Americans have! Mr. Obama's recent ammo scare made it possible for me to successfully push that skill in my local church, and I now count seven privately owned presses in my church membership friends.

If you counted all of the lee classic loaders that have been purchased by my friends, the number would skyrocket. If anybody has tried to buy a lee press
Or a classic loader in the last year, you know that there has been a run on these things.

By my count, Americans have brought up somewhere between three and 6 billion rounds of ammunition. And I'm not going to tell you how many pounds of powder and thousands of primers I currently have!
 
The 'Lord Of War' quote is:
"There are over 550 million firearms in worldwide circulation. That's one firearm for every twelve people on the planet.
The only question is: How do we arm the other 11?"... Yuri Orlov
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OK, officially Mexico has about 3 million legally registered firearms.

One of the arms watch groups claims that there are 12 million unregistered firearms in private hands in Mexico.

Georginia Sanchez, a Mexican security consultant, in a report for a Mexican agency, estimated 12 to 15 million unregistered military firearms and 40 million unregistered civilian hunting firearms in private hands in Mexico.

What number did they show for Mexico? 3 million registered? 15 million (3 million registered + 12 million unregistered)? 55 million?
 
What was it that Rahm Emannuel famously said about a crisis.....?

Rahm Emmanuel: "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before."

Moral Panick got us prohibition of alcohol, prohibition of marijuana, bans on Tales from the Crypt comic books, the Satanic Ritual Abuse prosecutions, hmmm.
 
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