In the last 5 months there have been at least 71 kids killed by guns. Average just under 6 years old

[mbperrin]

242. Apparently you have no idea where west Texas is, where I was raised and live still.

The reality is this: the kind of hoarders you are talking about, and I know some personally, are in a tiny minority in this country. There may be thousands, as you say; there may even be a million. That leaves 320 million not.

And billions of rounds owned by thousands mean millions for each one of them. Or if a million, thousands for each.

These serious shooters are popping of tens of thousands of rounds a month, maybe half a million a year. So in a few years, there will be none left if they had millions, or in months if they have thousands.

I would of course never sell military surplus. It would be destroyed. All will eventually work itself out. And we do all of these things and more for automobiles and hazardous chemicals, so it is not ludicrous to do it for guns and ammo - in fact, if it were, no one would argue with me - they'd let me give it a try and let me fail.

What they mean is, they don't want it. Different deal.

1. No one has to hunt in order to eat in this country.
2. If foreigners invade, it will be nuclear weapons and popguns won't matter.
3. If the government puts us in camps, it will be drones, cruise missiles, bunker bombs, B-2s, Blackhawks and more. Again, popguns won't matter.
4. So the idea of allowing these guns and ammo to be owned at all is an optional thing, but I'm willing to humor shooters, much like I do golfers, even though I abhor their hogging of desirable open spaces instead of letting kids play on it.

So please understand. I know what you mean. I live with what you mean daily and have my entire life. It's not my lack of understanding - it's my choices, just as you have made yours. These will play out in public eventually, stripped of gimmicks and political grandstanding, and it certainly may not be in my lifetime - many suffragettes died without a vote, but they didn't stop, and we should be glad they didn't. This will be the same someday.