Stop Lying to yourself About Being That “Good Guy With A Gun” by STEVE MARMEL

[CTyankee]

91. I don't know the answer to your question. My son is no doubt very current on the law

in his state (it is not CT).

As for your assertion that we are somehow becoming a nation more of gun owners, the last I saw on this the number of guns sold were increasing but not the number of gun owners, which was actually diminishing. So your "hardening resistance" is with a dwindling group of hard liners, probably whipped up by irrational fears that Obama was going after their guns and they'd better have a virtual arsenal to fight back. I am wondering if there is a connection between that and the pure hatred of the fact that a black man is in the White House. I suspect there is something to it.

I also wonder if the urbanization of this country doesn't tell us that this thing isn't really going your way. Fewer people in remote areas, more people in cities, means less numbers of people who might need to shoot rattlesnakes or feral hogs or actually want/need to hunt for food. So there's that.

I have suggested in other gun related threads that why don't we try for the gun safety laws in other nations where there are sporting/hunting gun enthusiasts, such as Norway. Now THERE is an example of a nation that knew something about tyranny and were truly courageous in their resistance, armed and otherwise, and suffered and died for their resistance. Yet they adopted strict gun laws in their country after the war and so far has had only ONE mass shooting (carried out only with great difficulty by an insane misfit), yet we have mass shootings every month or so. I say if it was good enough for the Norwegians, it is good enough for us.