another question about the gun ban craze

More people owning them is just fine, they all got a background check, right?

The more people who have reason to think about the gov't banning their property, confiscatory taxes, confiscation, etc., etc., the better off we all are.
 
We were all first time gun owners once.
Hopefully the new owners will learn to shoot them and get into the activity too. I wish I was some kind of instructor, I'd maybe offer low cost basic safety and familiarization class or something. I hope they take the time to learn and not get discouraged. We need numbers of gun owners to grow.

I don't go to ranges, I shoot at a ranch, but I see stories of people struggling at the range. Maybe if done of y'all see those guys, help them out.
 
A week or so ago my newspaper ran a repeat of an interview somebody did in Connecticut with a school superintendent, regarding arming teachers. She was against it. She was also against doing anything to "harden" schools against attacks. She just wants the state to confiscate all guns. "We don't want our schools to look like secured facilities. That might be upsetting to the children."
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Upsetting to the children only because the schools and idiots like this superintendent have brainwashed the little skulls fulla mush that guns are evil. Just think if we told kids that wearing a life jacket meant that the boat they were going on was going to sink. Do you think the kids would go on the boat, even with a life jacket on? Sheesh. We have really failed our kids with regards to firearms vs. safety. Firearms do mean safety when good people have them. We don't teach kids to fear firearms that uniformed police and sheriff's dept. people are carrying.
 
Let me add to what some brilliant folks have already stated above. Many young people who are pro second amendment, have just come out of college, a technical school, or maybe the military. They don't have much money and in a tough economy are trying to find their way. They may have put off buying their very first gun until they had a better financial footing. However, the reaction by the anti gun folks to Newtown, has changed the dynamic. Some of these young people may have decided that they can't wait any longer to purchase if they feel the guns they might want will no longer be available.
 
Not against new gun owners in the least. What I meant was, that since the number of new gun owners is up, the number of accidents and idiots will be up, also.

I expect the percentages to be about what they always have been, but I'm sure someone will try to make an issue about the (likey, slight) increase in the number of individual incidents due to more people having guns.

ITs what they do. If the accident rate stays the same but the base goes up, they'll cry about the increase. You know how they are, if it is 1 out of 1,000 (just for a number) then when it becomes 10 out of 10,000 they scream incidents have increased 10 times! IT's a lie, but they will say it anyway.
 
The 2nd amendment clearly states that people have the right to bear arms... including idiots. So whats the problem? No gun control is exactly that. Anarchy.
 
More people owning them is just fine, they all got a background check, right?
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Nope. Many buy at gun shows. I've never seen a credible study proving that this is a problem, much less one so significant as to require legislation.

What I meant was, that since the number of new gun owners is up, the number of accidents and idiots will be up, also.
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That would be a reasonable conclusion, but it's actually not true. I'll have to do some digging for hard numbers, but the number of accidental injuries and fatalities involving firearms has steadily declined.

From the NRA:

Since 1930, the annual number of such deaths has decreased 80%, to an all-time low, while the U.S. population has more than doubled and the number of firearms has quintupled. Among children, such deaths have decreased 90% since 1975.
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for me, while the lack of ammo and firearms locally has been a major bummer. and I know prices will increase to cover the shortened supply - One thing that has been a major benefit is the number of people joining our local gun club. True, the range is more packed than ever - but the other side of the equation is that we are getting an influx of moneys available to the club. Those have been used to purchase some long needed upgrades, and additional land for a larger outdoor range.
 
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