Who are these Joe's? The largest group in each sector of the population is: White. Male. Over 50. Some college didn't graduate. Midwest or Southern state. Republican or wingnut.
In the last 15 years the number of hunters has fallen, and so the gun industry to make up sales has turned to weapons for killing people rather than rabbit. The number of buyers of all guns is way down. The sales of guns is way up. The most likely buyer already owns 12 guns.
I have two friends who own 20 or 30 and are shopping for more. One guy told me he has thousands of rounds of ammo, and is plugged into the rumor mill that ammo shortages are rampant and Obama is doing it.
Wyoming is the easiest state to get a gun, Mass. the toughest. Suicide by gun is higher in Wyoming by 7 times. You can grade states by suicide and see which are the easiest to buy a gun.
The myth is blacks are doing most the killing and dying. Truth is the largest group dying by guns are white men over 50, and the killer is either friend or family or their own hand, the gun is almost always from their own household. You can't tell that from the news, suicides never make it, and white on white murders don't have enough fear and staying power, one or two days in the paper and that's usually it. So, it seems like all the brown black red and yellow people are killers, in fact few of them own guns.
Darrel,
ReplyDeleteFrom previous posts of mine you know that my old sergeant ass can hold off Santa Ana's army for a week without resupply. The problem is, all of my guns (not weapons) are designed for use in the sport of hunting. I cannot even fathom a reason why I might want to purchase a
Bushmaster Ar-15 or an AK-47.
You are right about the attitude of the public toward hunting and hence the decline. So? if Joes's guns can't move his supply of Remington shotguns - Lets speacialize in Ak-47s and UZIs.
Remember the line from Godfather I? "This isn't personal; it is strictly business". And, that is what happened with the firearms industry.
What America needs is some simple and sane regulation of firearms to keep them out of the hands of the mentally unstable and criminals.
I nation wide comprehensive background check will be a good start and Indiana's US Senator Joe Donally (D (naturally) In) is backing that.
I am sending him a attboy on that.
Going to Ft Knox tomorrow: commissary/BX and US Calvary store on US 31.
Ron
Sarge