I cannot imagine the private weapon arsenals built up across the US

[Chico Man]

They must be formidable, and I guarantee the purchasing is only going to increase because of fear of more regulation.

God forbid there is a combined effort at terror, like the Mumbai hotel attack.

[DollarBillHines]

1. I know folks with collections that range into the hundreds.

I know a lot of guys who have more than a dozen firearms.

[jody]

2. Probably none of them are criminals.

ON EDIT ADD
I compete in major matches with competitors from all walks of life; Olympic champions, world champions, politicians, physicians, dentists, lawyers, factory workers, utility workers, farmers, etc. and it makes me mad that ignorant people with more hate than sense lump all of us who possess firearms together into some hated group.

[Chico Man]

6. It's like people who collect vinyl

There will always by the "audiophile" in the bunch. Difference is, music hasn't been known to kill several people per minute.

[jody]

8. Still ignorance in the anti-RKBA community hurts their efforts. Even more, their unwillingness to

learn or seek a compromise almost guarantees more Sandy Hook Tragedies will occur.

Stupid is as stupid does!

[Fumesucker]

17. People in other nations have managed to find different hobbies

As someone pointed out in a recent OP, the gun magazines in the supermarket where she was shopping were put down at kid level.

Other than killing people and animals guns really serve no more purpose than do golf balls or hockey pucks. I guess you could use some pistols as a clumsy sort of hammer.

[jody]

18. What other nations do is not important because the US is unique in many ways. RKBA is about

self-defense and has been since PA(1776) and VT(1777) wrote their constitutions and PA ratified the BOR on 10 March 1790 and with contemporaneous knowledge of the Second Amendment, modified its constitution that took effect on 2 Sept. 1790 to say “The right of the citizens to bear arms in defence of themselves and the State shall not be questioned.”

[Fumesucker]

19. Uniquely violent among allegedly developed nations

I used to be culturally pro gun, qualified Sharpshooter in the Marines a great many years ago, then I saw Bowling for Columbine and it shifted me to kind of a neutral position.

This latest school shooting hits too close to home for me, I have three grandkids just a little older than those who were slaughtered the other day and I keep seeing their dear bodies torn to shreds by that poor tortured maniac with blood spattered around like an episode of Dexter.

They need to go, America needs to grow up.

I really get the impression that a lot of pro gun folks don't get just how hard this incident has hit people who have no direct connection to this tragedy, our children, our grandchildren, our nieces, our nephews, our future lying in a pool of congealing blood.

And then we have a paid author on the pro gun side, a woman in fact, tell us that our children should be trained to engulf the shooter in a human wave. I have a hard time thinking of a comment that could have been more callous and inhumane.

[jody]

20. I abhor violent crime as much as you but I want LEO et al to give up their arms before I will

consider that act.

[Fumesucker]

21. I noticed on all the threads about Megan McArdle's human wave of first graders article

Not a single strong pro gunner came in to comment.

The French in WWI pretty much established that mass charging of automatic weapons was a suboptimal tactic, evidently today's pro gun advocates have yet to enter the twentieth century in terms of tactical acumen.

[jody]

22. What does "automatic weapons" have to do with the exchange between you and I? nt

[Fumesucker]

23. Just an observation on who thought first graders charging an assault rifle was bit over the top

Not pro gunners apparently.

And don't play semantic games, I know you're smarter than that and I knew exactly what I was saying.

One little boy was shot what, eleven times?

As near automatic as makes no difference given the disparity in capabilities of the shooter and the victims.

[jody]

24. My "2. Probably none of them are criminals." and your last post don't really relate. I don't know

how we got derailed.

[liberal N proud]

3. That is why we now live in fear

Piss someone off and they will blow your brains out.

[part man all 86]

4. Let them because any army worth its salt will take out each and everyone them in a conflict.

I love the john waynes of America with their arsenals. Let see these broke dicks go up against the m-1 abrams tank, m-2 bradley, apache, blackhawk helicopters and a-10 warthogs and survive. It aint going to happen, they will fold up like a cheap sofa bed.

[jody]

5. And you will be on the front line leading the charge? More likely in a bunker. nt

[part man all 86]

11. I served in the 1st cav, ft. hood texas. M-1 tanker fool.

[jody]

13. Great! Did you ever face enemy fire, I did? nt

[part man all 86]

14. Sorry about the fool part, only as civilian have guns been pulled on me and shot but luckily missed.

I have been robbed at gun point, shot at by another and pistol whipped while being held down in another case.

[jody]

15. Glad you survived those attacks. You know from experience that calling 911 isn't enough. nt

[part man all 86]

16. Aint that the truth, if it weren't for bad luck throughout my life i would not have any.

[Chico Man]

7. I know it

We need to clean up the weapons like they burned down the marijuana.

[friendly_iconoclast]

9. On what date will Victory in Afghanistan Day be celebrated?

[part man all 86]

12. History has shown you cannot win in Afghanistan.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

10. A small fraction of even the gun nutters buy into that stuff

http://www.democraticunderground.com/117293860

The number of guns depends on what kind of shooting they do unless they are gun nuts or survivalists