Random Thoughts On The Gun Topic

 1.  You ever noticed after an event.....most all news organizations want to share some poll showing 55-percent or more of people want 'control'?  It'll always be labeled 'Sixty-two-percent of Americans want X'.

Most of the polls center around 2,000 participants, and usually involve a fair number of people in urbanized areas.

Personally, I would like to see polls done state-by-state, and a minimum of half the participants to be rural or small town occupants.  

If you walked around rural Arkansas....probably 80-percent of people want as little changed as possible.  If you walk around Detroit....it's probably near 60-percent who want to ensure nothing much changes on themselves and their home-weapon (which might be a AK-47).

2.  Ever noticed most all of the mass-shooters are male?  It's like 99.5-percent.  Women?  If they are in a shooting situation....it's always a one-on-one, and about some wrong that the person done to them.

3.  Chief reason why Germans don't have a lot of these?  This goes back to two key factors (national ID card, and your doctor reviewing your past medical history on whether you get a license or not).  

4.  Number of AR-15s in the US?  They throw the 20-million number around, and it might be true.  

5.  Who are the major groups on this 'control' topic?

Well.....first, you have the total anti-gun, total-control group.  

Then, you have the hunter group, who probably own at least three rifles, a shotgun, and a minimum of one pistol.  This is the group who might agree to some marginal changes, but fear that anti-hunting schemes will come up next.  

Then, you have the farmer/rancher, who have a AR-15, a couple of shotguns/rifles, and probably carry a pistol in the truck.  Oddly enough.....none of the mass shooters ever come from the farm or ranch folks.  They don't want a bunch of regulations to occur.

Then, you have the local drug/cartel guy or meth-head, who doesn't care what you do on gun control....because he doesn't intend to play by your rules.

Then, you have the ex-Army/Marine folks who have sixteen weapons in the house, and it's more of a hobby than anything else.  

Then, you have the political folks who keep claiming they can write 'magical' text to resolve all gun problems/mass shootings....but can't seem to get baby formula to grocery stores.  

These groups all have an agenda.  The amusing thing...more than half of society want dangerous nutcases put into a facility, while the remaining folks want total freedom for the nutcase crowd.

6.  Finally....the minute that you go at this and say it's an age thing....that no one should buy a gun until age 21, then you trigger the question 'why should I let you vote, if you are that immature'.

I could buy into the age discussion, but then why stop at just guns?  There's probably forty things I'd dump into the age discussion.  Why should I allow you to get stupid and borrow $120,000 from the government and be in debt for twenty years?