1970: 50% of households have firearms. 2012 32% of households have firearms, and dropping.

[onehandle]

Just on MSNBC.

And yet there are hundreds of millions of more guns.

It's a lunatic's fetish.

[RomneyLies]

1. Yep, it's impossible to talk to the lunatics, too.

I've started putting the gun lunatics on ignore. Can't talk to 'em, can't reason with them. They ignore facts just like creationists.

Every gun lunatic is a Republican at heart. It's become quite evident.

I wonder how many gun lunatics I have on ignore will respond to this and not know I have them on ignore?

[Walk away]

7. I put all of the gun lunitics on "ignore" years ago...

the odd thing was that it hardly effected posts on the other forums at all. Most of them don't really post anywhere else. It made for a really pleasant DU!

Unfortunately for me. when they changed to the new DU it wiped out all my hard "ignore" work!

[enough]

2. This is a very interesting fact regarding changes in the gun market.

If fewer people are buying guns, then the industry needs each buyer to buy more and more. The industry needs them to collect, to stockpile, to hoard, to buy guns as an expression of something, not just for need. In short, the industry needs its consumers to be fixated on guns, to fear they will be taken away, to believe that the possession of guns means something significant about them. It needs them to be nuts.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

14. I offered some thoughts on gun nuttery here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/117293860

IME if someone enjoys shooting their inventory will grow with time, depending on what kind of shooting they do. Most don't sell anything they own. I fall into that category. I have never sold a weapon once I owned it. Its a hassle and I did not want the responsibility nor liability. Easier just to move it to the back of the safe. That is changing for me now.

[firehorse]

3. and how many homes in 1970 had machine guns and semi automatics?

[ProgressiveProfessor]

13. BATF may be able to give you the former, the latter is unknown

However, recently the sales of semi autos, both pistols and rifles have dominated the market.

[Walk away]

4. They pretend they are just hunters or want a gun to protect their house but...

apparently, most of them are stockpiling deadly weapons and insane amounts of ammunition. No wonder the police are scared shit of them!
The NRA is busy tarring the mentally ill this week but it seems to me the real nuts are multiple gun owners!

[jody]

5. GALLUP Self-Reported Gun Ownership in U.S. Is Highest Since 1993

[RomneyLies]

9. Gallup said Romney would win, too. n/t

[jody]

6. GALLUP Record-Low 26% in U.S. Favor Handgun Ban

[Walk away]

8. Does anyone use gallop as a proving point anymore? nt

[RomneyLies]

10. Gallup said Romney was going to win this year.

So tell me again why I should trust what you just cited?

[kestrel91316]

11. The gun fetishists are likely the exact same crowd as the birther fetishists, the Palin

fetishists, the anti-abortion fetishists.

Lunatics, all.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

12. The validity of those numbers or even those from Gallup are suspect since they are self reporting

I would accept that 40-60% of homes have firearms. However I expect that half that number or less are active shooters of any kind.