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Nodaisho:
--- Quote from: Alex C on 13 Oct 2009, 10:57 ---As for the gun control thing, most people in America are more or less of the opinion you are Jeans. Polling has shown that the majority of Americans recognize the right to own a gun yet a slight majority also favors having stricter laws or at least more tightly enforcing the ones that are already on the books.
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I'm actually pretty sure that recently, it has gotten to the point where a majority don't favor stricter laws. Enforcing the ones that we already have, sure, even the NRA is for that (although it would be nice if some of them were changed so that if your gun malfunctions, the part that makes it fire gets stuck forward, and you empty a whole magazine downrange, you don't get charged with a felony for having an unregistered machinegun).
It isn't murdervibes, it is a mix of disliking a lot of people and finding guns fascinating. And no, that isn't the same thing.
Alex C:
I looked and you're right; the last figure I had seen was from in '01. This kind of thing has been hovering around 50% for quite some time though so I'm not exactly confident that the sudden drop Gallup polls are showing will stick though. There's simply too many people in the middle ground on this subject to say, particularly since the polls seem to be showing that again, people want to stick with the status quo. They love their rifles but don't really see why some dude wants to buy an M-60. Maybe it could though, at least for a while; we've still had school shootings and the like despite Democrats getting some of their favorite pet laws through in the past so I could see how many people would be willing to just give up on a few of the laws. That would also make sense considering that most of the pessimism in regards to gun control is predictably coming from Republicans and to a lesser extent independents. This would make sense, particularly since guns and ammo sales tend to spike when a Democrat gets into office. A lot of people tend to stock up in such scenarios.
Nodaisho:
I noticed the stocking up. The shelves are still mostly bare around here, for the longest time nobody even had .22 ammo, there was only birdshot, lots and lots of birdshot. It is getting better at least, and it probably won't be long now until the credit card bills get to be so bad that all of the people that stocked up on 100,000 rounds of 5.56 will have to sell most of them, and the market will get flooded with ammo.
The people that don't get why someone wants an M-60 have obviously never been to Knob Creek (giant class III shoot. Short barreled rifles, shotguns, machineguns, suppressed guns, someone usually brings an m134 minigun as well, if you are particularly eager to get rid of your money).
Alex C:
I've heard of Knob Creek gun range but never had any interest in it. One time on a road trip a guy really wanted to stop by there, but me and the other 3 guys vetoed him. You probably need a membership and shit anyway. I just don't get boners over guns or even particularly like them. I'm must a mid western boy, that's all, so I've been around them to some extent or another for most of my life.
Nodaisho:
You don't need a membership as far as I can tell. The big shoots are bi-annual, the rest of the time it is just a normal range as far as I can tell.
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