Gallup: Americans in love with their guns

[dead0man]

Weird that the reduced gun laws have not caused the bloodbath you anti-gunners wanted isn't it?

[dead0man]

Did you forget that we still have FAR more gun murders than any other rich country?

would you rather they be pushed out of a window?

Obviously if we didn't have guns there would be fewer murders, most people who use guns are too cowardly to kill someone by hand.

If this were true, wouldn't we have more murders now that we have so many more guns?

[dead0man]

Deadman....I do have one question, why do you think the murder rate in the U.S. is so significantly higher than in Europe?

I understand there are other factors (drug abuse....poverty among minorities particulary, etc.), but do you think that explains it all?

Those things and the side effects of the War on Drugs with a little "violent culture" thrown in for good measure.

[dead0man]

According to Steve Pinker's book "The Better Angels of Our Nature" the higher US crime rate can be explained by patterns of settlement in combination with historical patterns. In other countries, governments pacified the population, and then handed itself over to them in the form of democracy. In the US, democracy came "too early", before the population was pacified, as evidenced by the Second Amendment.

if this mofo has a PhD I'm gonna rape myself up the ass.

It would be funny if you went all "ironic" on us and used a gun for the self abuse.

[dead0man]

Ok, serious question. Does anyone have any theories about why gun sales have continued to increase? I remember in 2009 there was a huge spate of articles about how Obama's election contributed to the surge in gun sales... but since then, gun sales have only continued to increase despite a sharp drop in the Democrats' electoral fortunes. Examination of the NICS data suggests that gun sales began their upward ascent in late 2005/early 2006.

If nothing else, this HAS to prove that guns don't kill people right? A gun is a tool, blaming (or banning) a tool is stupid.  Tell your friends.