Somebody’s not holding up their end
Posted by TFG on August 28th, 2007
The United States has 90 guns for every 100 citizens, making it the most heavily armed society in the world, a report released on Tuesday said.
- some Euroweenie study group
I’ve got four here in my office - two cowboy wheel guns, one XD, and a SOCOM-16. Which reminds me - I really need to scope that SOCOM, and get a Streamlight for the XD.
Of course, the cowboy guns are purely nostalgic entertainment, but I’d take ‘em to just about any fight.
Anyway, that ratio should be at least 3:1 for every male: handgun, shotgun, rifle. Chop-chop, peeps.
Big Bill Quick is more philosophical than me: I feel nothing but pride in the wisdom of our founders, who knew full well that a disarmed people was an enslaved people, and so guaranteed our right to keep and bear arms in the founding document of our nation. Damn straight.
As a digression, I had this exact same convo with a colleague on Monday about RKBA. It’s not for hunting or target shooting, folks. Or even keeping the bad guys away from your family and your stuff. All of those are offshoots, though you could easily argue that the right to self-defense is God-given…inalienable, so to speak.
August 28th, 2007 at 8:29 pm
The problem is not guns in our society but the thugs who have guns and th eculture the thugs live in who allow the thugs ti have guns and who glorify their complete lack of contribution to society
August 28th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
90 guns for every 100 people? Hunh. Last time the government called, how many guns did you tell ‘em you had? I don’t own any guns, not a single one. No sir. Hunuh.
BTW, did I tell you we had a hell of a good time in Terlingua? Went down to stay a week and stayed 2-1/2 months. Hated every minute of it and we’re headed back this winter. Damn good music too!
August 28th, 2007 at 11:23 pm
I always let The Government go to voice mail.
Don’t tell me when you’re coming or I’ll drive up for a knife-sharpening lesson.
August 29th, 2007 at 5:19 am
So the combined population of Massachusetts, New York, and the District of Columbia adds up to 10 per cent of the country, then?
Sounds about right.
-k-
August 29th, 2007 at 2:16 pm
Three? I think five is the correct minimum per household. You need a couple of .22s for practice and to introduce newcomers to shooting.
August 29th, 2007 at 3:37 pm
Some of us are struggling po’ semi-professional overgrown college kids and are barely up into the double-digits and feel ashamed when we talk to our gun-show buddies who have 30 or 40 guns or more.
Yeah, I’d agree one needs a couple or three .22s, minimum-even with cheap .22 LR ammo crowding 3 cents a shot with tax (2 fifty-shot boxes of Remington Thunderbolt from Bass Pro cost me $2.99 last night), that’s awfully cheap shooting.
The R Man
August 29th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
Nice point about the .22s, Craig.
R, I’m probably into double digits, but that’s thanks to a dad and a granddad who passed them on. I’m just filling in the cracks for my heirs, heh heh.