24 Jun 2023 9:15 pm
I grew up a Republican in an area so Republican we didn’t know a single Democrat.
And while my father had one .22 rifle and one shotgun I didn’t see a handgun until my cousin became a policemen when I was about 12 years old.
Two year olds didn’t shoot their mothers fifty years ago because only wealthy people and firearms enthusiasts had hand guns in their homes. Common everyday people didn’t own a handgun, and didn’t want one.
There was exactly one high powered rifle in our entire community, I knew of. The rural route mail carrier was a quail hunter and kept a bolt action .222 in his vehicle to shoot mainly hawks.
My father bought me a .22 for my tenth birthday in 1968, at a large gun shop. There were hardly any handguns for sale at all, only a few revolvers and a couple of 1911s behind a glass case. Every long gun was marketed towards hunters and plinkers, every one with wooden stocks.
I can’t count all my firearms I own so many, and I’m a life member of the NRA.
The NRA and gun owners in general are victims of our own success in multiplying gun ownership to the point where there are probably more legally owned firearms in the USA than there are people.
Yet less than half the households have a firearm present, and only a fraction of we gun owners own the lion’s share of firearms.
When I was a teenager Roe vs Wade was decided and for fifty years there was a constitutional right to a safe early term abortion for women who discreetly wanted one.
How did that constitutional right end up, eh?
The majority of people who do NOT own firearms will not forever tolerate hundreds of mass murders a year, every summer weekend in large cities bringing a new harvest of dead and wounded, and two year olds shooting their mothers, and the response being “whadda bout this” and whadda bout that”.
Millions upon millions of Americans have guns they ought not be able to buy cheaper than cell phones and with less paperwork involved.
The worst part is, my own gun rights are at stake.
And while my father had one .22 rifle and one shotgun I didn’t see a handgun until my cousin became a policemen when I was about 12 years old.
Two year olds didn’t shoot their mothers fifty years ago because only wealthy people and firearms enthusiasts had hand guns in their homes. Common everyday people didn’t own a handgun, and didn’t want one.
There was exactly one high powered rifle in our entire community, I knew of. The rural route mail carrier was a quail hunter and kept a bolt action .222 in his vehicle to shoot mainly hawks.
My father bought me a .22 for my tenth birthday in 1968, at a large gun shop. There were hardly any handguns for sale at all, only a few revolvers and a couple of 1911s behind a glass case. Every long gun was marketed towards hunters and plinkers, every one with wooden stocks.
I can’t count all my firearms I own so many, and I’m a life member of the NRA.
The NRA and gun owners in general are victims of our own success in multiplying gun ownership to the point where there are probably more legally owned firearms in the USA than there are people.
Yet less than half the households have a firearm present, and only a fraction of we gun owners own the lion’s share of firearms.
When I was a teenager Roe vs Wade was decided and for fifty years there was a constitutional right to a safe early term abortion for women who discreetly wanted one.
How did that constitutional right end up, eh?
The majority of people who do NOT own firearms will not forever tolerate hundreds of mass murders a year, every summer weekend in large cities bringing a new harvest of dead and wounded, and two year olds shooting their mothers, and the response being “whadda bout this” and whadda bout that”.
Millions upon millions of Americans have guns they ought not be able to buy cheaper than cell phones and with less paperwork involved.
The worst part is, my own gun rights are at stake.