original by Antipitas: And a lot of people (more than you would suspect) own only 1 firearm. So distribution tends to even out.
It would have to be a "lot" more than I suspect. I know a lot of hunters and a lot of gun owners from Maine to Washington to Alabama and lots of places in between including some in your part of the country and I don;t know any that have less than a half dozen or so and some even more than I have. Maybe it does even out but the point is the same.
original by Antipitas: Why? When we are so splintered into factions, there is no single "population" to contend with.
That, unforturnately applies to us also. I know for a fact that there is dissension in the ranks of the hunters. Archery hunters don't like the black powder hunters, neither liket the gun hunters and the d#@ spear hunters (legal method in Alabama) don;t like no body. And I see post occasionally that indicate that there is dissension amongust we gun owners also. Some think it is not neccessary to be able to own automatic weapons and so on.
My point is that we as gun owners need to be good stewarts of the second amendment. We don't need to be going around with our chest poked out and a copy of the constitution in our pocket, looking down our noses and snapping at the enemy.