evan price
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I do not consider 14 million a particularly good number. It's not good news.
Why?
Let's assume the US population is about 300 million people. Thats men, women & children, not including illegals.
Lets further assume that each of those 14 million guns were purchased individually. That means that less than 5% of the US population bought guns.
You and everyone reading this knows that people who own guns buy more. I'd be willing to bet that that 14 million number is probably really attributable to a much smaller pool of individuals who bought them. Heck, I know that I bought a good handful of guns myself. That means that in actuality (And I am making wild *** guesses here) the real number of individuals that bought guns was likely much less than half of that 14 million people- maybe 2% or 3% of the population- and when you start talking about voting power, 3% of the population is really lost in the over/under in most national races.
Also consider that most likely, the number of new first-time gun owners was a small percentage of that number. So we really didn't gain anything, just some of us stocked up while the stockin' was good.
Now if that NICS number had been around 10 TIMES that number, I'd be pretty darn happy.
Why?
Let's assume the US population is about 300 million people. Thats men, women & children, not including illegals.
Lets further assume that each of those 14 million guns were purchased individually. That means that less than 5% of the US population bought guns.
You and everyone reading this knows that people who own guns buy more. I'd be willing to bet that that 14 million number is probably really attributable to a much smaller pool of individuals who bought them. Heck, I know that I bought a good handful of guns myself. That means that in actuality (And I am making wild *** guesses here) the real number of individuals that bought guns was likely much less than half of that 14 million people- maybe 2% or 3% of the population- and when you start talking about voting power, 3% of the population is really lost in the over/under in most national races.
Also consider that most likely, the number of new first-time gun owners was a small percentage of that number. So we really didn't gain anything, just some of us stocked up while the stockin' was good.
Now if that NICS number had been around 10 TIMES that number, I'd be pretty darn happy.