American Gun Nuts ‘Not Just Urban Criminals And Drug Dealers’
AMERICAN gunowners are not all “urban criminals and drug dealers”. Not all.
Reuters tells us in the UK that: The American affinity for guns may puzzle foreigners who link high ownership rates and liberal gun ownership laws to the 84 gun deaths and 34 gun homicides that occur in the United States each day and wonder why gun control is not an issue in the U.S. presidential election. The owners are not just urban criminals and drug dealers. There are hunters and home security advocates, and then there are the gun collectors.
What about the white supremicists, cult overlords and crazed campus shootists?
Says one gun enthusiast:
“The richer the golfer, the more clubs he owns. You have a golf club for every angle and range, whether you’re lying in the grass or lying in the sand trap. It’s the same with gun nuts.”
And just like with golf, the biggest enthusiasts are white, middle-aged bores. Fore! Fire at will. Anyone keeping score?
Posted: 12th, March 2008 | In: Anorak In New York Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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March 13th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
Hmm… Your premis seems to be that the USA’s relatively high gun crime rate is caused by the easy availablity of guns. What about Switzerland? They have a gun crime rate that is comparable to the rest of western Europe and are armed to the teeth with even more guns per capita than here in the USA. And then there’s the UK where gun crime rates are soaring despite (or because of?) an almost complete ban on civilian gun ownership. Could it be that the problem you seek to address is somewhat more complicated than you let on?
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no idea of the Swiss issues you mention. But the ’soaring’ gun crime here is still very minimal, excepting to the victims, and remember too our Police are still routinely unarmed.
March 12th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
British Aristocrats are also quite fond of their guns… or so I hear.
Could it be that the British Government enforced their gun ban not as an act of prudence or sensibility, but as a way to disarm the lower classes?
It’s also of note that the large majority of gun collectors and hunters in America [can apparently]trace their ancestry back to England and Ireland.
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