{"id":134962,"date":"2017-10-06T14:26:36","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T20:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=134962"},"modified":"2017-10-06T21:53:48","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T03:53:48","slug":"guns-and-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/06\/guns-and-myth.html","title":{"rendered":"Guns and Myth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even as the number of gun owners (and hunters) declines in the US, guns continue to be a hot commodity, with a small fraction of the population buying up ever-increasing weapons for … well, for all sorts of reasons, including some ever-escalating fear-mongering from the unofficial lobbyists for the gun and ammo manufacturers of America, the NRA.<\/p>\n

While reading about the NRA’s rhetoric is fascinating (and maddening), the numbers cited in the article are also worth a look-at, as we continue to debate the role of guns in our society.<\/p>\n

But over the past few decades, Americans have lost their taste for hunting. Only 15 percent of us now say we ever hunt, less than half as many as in the 1970s. In any given year, maybe a third of those hunters among us, 5 percent of Americans, actually slog through fields and forests with rifles and shotguns.<\/p>\n

In fact, fewer of us now own any kind of gun for any reason\u2014even as the number of guns has increased phenomenally. In the 1970s about half of Americans had a gun, and it was almost always just a gun, one on average. Today only about a quarter of Americans own guns\u2014but the average owner has three or four. Fewer than 8 million people, only 3 percent of all American adults, own roughly half the guns. Members of that tiny minority of superenthusiasts own an average of 17 guns apiece.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fewer people, with more guns. I’m not sure that sounds healthy. Especially when they’re being told they have to buy them or else face death at the hands of terrorists and tyrants.<\/p>\n


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\nAmerica\u2019s Gun Zealots Are Preparing for a Violent Showdown That Exists Only in Their Minds<\/a><\/span>
\nJust 3 percent of the nation owns half its firearms. They\u2019re preparing to live out a twisted fantasy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Even as the number of gun owners (and hunters) declines in the US, guns continue to be a hot commodity, with a small fraction of the population buying up ever-increasing weapons for … well, for all sorts of reasons, including some ever-escalating fear-mongering from the unofficial lobbyists for the gun and ammo manufacturers of America, … Continue reading “Guns and Myth”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,381,298],"tags":[418],"class_list":["post-134962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-conspiracy-nuts","category-guns","tag-nra"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/unnamed-4.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":128254,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/06\/whom-does-the-nra-speak-for.html","url_meta":{"origin":134962,"position":0},"title":"Whom does the NRA speak for?","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 6-Oct-15 11:22pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I disagree with the conclusion of article, which says, \"The N.R.A. is no longer the voice of law-abiding gun owners, but rather a voice for criminals.\" The NRA is, in fact, a voice for gun manufacturers who are interested in maximizing sales of guns and ammunition, period. 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