Re: Gun Control - Should Ordinary Citizens be allowed to Own, Carry, & Use Firearms?
Reply #336 –
The claim of the total number of guns in the US doesn't mean much anyway. You have to figure that Smiley-types have arsenals that could equip half their towns with sufficient firepower to repel a zombie attack, while a great many people have no firearms at all. Sooooo-- three-hundred-million guns is a meaningless number in and of itself. For all the great size of a personal arsenal, remember that a man can only fire one, or at the most two, guns at any one time. So, most of those guns are just sitting there waiting for their turn to be used. Then, too, consider that guns have different primary purposes. An AR-15 is a remarkably poor choice for duck-hunting and is unlikely to be used for this purpose. A .22 pistol can be used for home protection, but probably wouldn't be your first choice for that purpose. A 30.06 rifle-- deer hunting, but can be used as a sniper rifle in a pinch. So a gun owner might well have several guns for several different purposes, and will choose his weapon according to the job at hand.