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August 30, 2007
Today's sing along...
Kiss My Glock... Ted Nugent, live:
At the end... some nice shooting by Uncle Ted and the Boys, that looks like a party I'd like an invite to, and finally, we get the answer to the question... why does anyone need an Uzi? sigh. Makes me wanna go out and get one.
Did you know that America is the most armed country in the world? It's true!
The United States has 90 guns for every 100 citizens, making it the most heavily armed society in the world, a report released on Tuesday said.
U.S. citizens own 270 million of the world's 875 million known firearms, according to the Small Arms Survey 2007 by the Geneva-based Graduate Institute of International Studies.
Of course, that would be registered firearms held by law-abiding citizens and it wouldn't take into consideration the numerous "saturday nite specials" held by criminals in this country.
That sounds like a lot of firearms, but...
In 1994, 44 million Americans owned 192 million firearms, 65 million of which were handguns. Although there were enough guns to have provided every U.S. adult with one, only 25 percent of adults actually owned firearms; 74 percent of gun owners possessed two or more.
Gun ownership was highest among middle-aged, college- educated people of rural small-town America.
In 1994, there were four in my household, two handguns and two shotguns. The ex took the handguns and one of the shotguns, I kept the other. Now I've got my old reliable Mossberg and my brand spanking new Kimber Ulta Carry. Most of the people I know who are armed have more than one, and a good many of them have what can only be called an arsenal.
Oh, and back in 1994, the general assumptiopn was gun ownership was in a decline. I guess they were wrong.
Posted by LindaSoG at August 30, 2007 06:00 AM