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Originally Posted by EddyTheDog
[T]he fact is I hate all idiots with guns.....
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Over 60 million people own various rifles, shotguns and handguns in America --
we are not all shooting people!
Maybe 3% or less of the gun owners are criminals (their guns are off the books anyway) the other 97% need to deal with that 3% element (or less) and have legitimate reasons for gun ownership.
Gun criminal incarceration rates USDOJ --Bureau of Justice Statistics 2002, a little dated and with all that has gone on with terrorism and our internal politics of decisiveness, it may be worse today. If handgun sales were restricted to people issued CCW permits I would have no problem with it. Rifles and shotguns are part of Americana for hunting and property protection. AR 15's and other assault rifles do serve a purpose: They keep the government constitutionally proper.
Gun regulation of the Third Reich On second thought ... I'll take my chances ...
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The poll also found that 22 percent of Americans personally own a firearm, down from a high of 31 percent in 1985. The percentage of men who own a firearm is down from 50 percent in 1980 to 35 percent in 2014, while the number of women who own a gun has remained relatively steady since 1980, coming in at 12 percent in 2014.
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The 2014 survey showed that roughly half of Republicans live in a household with at least one gun, The Associated Press reports, which is about double the rate among Democrats or independents. Though principal investigator Tom W. Smith says his analysis didn’t focus on political affiliation, a basic run of the numbers suggests that roughly 25 percent of Democrats and 23 percent of independents live in a household with at least one gun.
http://www.newsweek.com/us-gun-owner...eclines-312822
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