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Would love to see the LGBTQ+ community arm them selves. Be hilarious to watch the right wingers scrambling over each other to quickly get gun restrictions in place
They've got some practice with that move. Just a different group. NRA and Ronald Reagan teaming up to push gun control.
They are, and 99% of gun owners want them to be armed. A armed minority is harder to oppress. Check out the pink pistols and NAAGA. A ton of range owners who are white focus heavily on bringing in minorities to train them and get range time in. You antigun people are so damn brainwashed, that you think that only 55+ year old white males who love Jesus and busch beer own firearms.
99% doesn't match my experience with the community at all.
They do own most of them though. They horde them, and stockpile ammo.
No they do not. Firearms are not cheap and neither is ammo.
There are more guns in the country than there are people. And only 32% of American adults own guns. So if only a 1/3 of adults, who make up 2/3 of the population, own guns and there more guns than people, then the average gun owner owns 5 guns.
I would say owning 5 guns is close to hoarding but maybe not quite there. However, that's the average. I know many gun owners who only have 1 or 2 guns. That means there are a lot of people who own a lot more than 5 guns.
That's a revolver, a pistol, a hunting riffle, a shotgun, and an AR/AK.
5 guns for 5 different jobs and you could carry them to the car in a single trip.
"Hoarding" is like... what people who have compounds do.
Most people own 1-3 in their house hold. The rest are collectors and have 10+
So are rich assholes or marginalized people more likely to be able to afford them?