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Originally Posted by missdpuck
I would agree, flameswin.
Just based on an unscientific sample-the sample being people I know-more intend to get guns than not.
What's real interesting is that a guy at work who is always talks a good anti-gun game actually goes to the shooting range once a week, and has a concealed carry permit. I was kinda shocked.
I wonder how many others are like him.
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Buying guns and keeping them "just in case" strikes me as this realist, Cold War mentality that is so engrained in American culture it would need a proverbial nasty root canal to reform. However, this falls clearly in line with a national culture that focuses unhealthily on wealth accumulation, ignores obesity as a clear epidemic, refuses to understand the basic rights of universal health care, and supports you to sue your neighbor and squeeze every last dime out of 'em if you can. This is in addition to a government that spies on their own people and ignores their own people's cry to stop going to war all the time.
Gun control is just one of many issues that country faces, and I'm nervous to see how it will be in 50 years when I'm about to kick the bucket.