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Why do Americans love guns so much?


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This data is a little outdated but it's obvious which country's citizens love their guns:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_guns_per_capita_by_country

 

Is it because we are a military nation?  Is it a holdover from the frontier days where people used to hunt for their food?  Is it because gun rights are written in the Constitution?  Is it because we have large rural areas in this country.

 

I grew up in a small town and I swear some of the people I know from growing up there feel gun rights is their most important political issue. 

 

Why the obsession with guns?

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I have lots of guns.  I love them, but I'm not obsessed with them...if that's possible.  I'm a tree-hugging liberal, but I am also very concerned about the gubment trying to poop on my gun rights.  Unless the municipal govt will assign a cop or sheriff's deputy to follow me around for safety, I will continue to carry a loaded firearm tucked under my shirt everywhere I go.

 

I served in the military, not sure if that has influenced me or not. 

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Having grown up in no-gun suburbia then moved to a gun lovin' small town . . . People in the country like to hunt and guns are a recreational thing. To "them" it seems silly to have to regulate something that a vast majority of them use responsibly.

 

HOWEVER, "country folk" do seem to have an inordinate paranoia of people coming and invading their homes, stealing their stuff, hurting their loved ones WHEN the incidence is much lower than in the suburbs or cities. If you feel this way enough to say you need guns for protection, why don't you also lock your doors at night? Why do you leave the car/truck keys in the front seat over night?

 

Suburbanites and city folk see guns as more of something that gangs and thugs tote around and are okay lumping those guns in with the ones that are not used to commit felonies. These people just see it as a matter of time before bad things will happen when a gun is around (a kid will shoot himself or others with it). 

 

IMO, these are the two gun cultures that exist in this country and neither side tries or can or wants to understand where the other is coming from. 

 

Reading that book, Empire of the Summer Moon, that zoony recommended you get an idea. Guns were an integral part of settling the plains and the west and the Colt six shooter an even legendary piece of equipment that helped seal the deal. Guns are pretty prevalent in Canada, but they're just not as violent for some reason. 

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America basically invented and perfected marketing based on fear, paranoia and sexual inadequacy.

 

Other things we love:  plastic surgery, obnoxiously large trucks, all you can stuff down your throat buffets, millionaire preachers/rappers, fake weight-loss schemes, nonexistent childhood "disorders" that can be "cured" with expensive medication, etc...

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Suburbanites and city folk see guns as more of something that gangs and thugs tote around and are okay lumping those guns in with the ones that are not used to commit felonies. These people just see it as a matter of time before bad things will happen when a gun is around (a kid will shoot himself or others with it). 

 

IMO, these are the two gun cultures that exist in this country and neither side tries or can or wants to understand where the other is coming from. 

 

 

 

dang ...we sure live in different cities  :)

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I love guns. I think that they are one of the top 10 investments you can make in your life.

 

Get a house #1

 

Get a fast car #2

 

Get a main chick #3

 

Get a few side chicks #4

 

Get a nice armory of ARs and Glocks #5

 

 

In all honesty I really do think that guns are a good investment. I can think of more positives that can result in owning a gun than negatives. Do I think that some people should who committed crimes should be able to get a gun? No. But you can't really stop that. Do I think people should have to register their guns? Absolutely not. 

 

The question is why do Americans live in fear and why do so many Americans not know their rights. I'm not talking about guns i'm talking about all rights. So many people do not know their rights and let themselves be violated every day.

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I love guns. I think that they are one of the top 10 investments you can make in your life.

 

Get a house #1

 

Get a fast car #2

 

Get a main chick #3

 

Get a few side chicks #4

 

Get a nice armory of ARs and Glocks #5

 

 

 

 

That about sums it up for the Gun Owners of America.  Yahoo.

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Why do so many Americans eagerly surrender more of any of the constitutionally protected rights? People are quick to say gun nuts are full of fear but what is the need to surrender rights? Oh right, for "safety" (read: fear).

 

Depends on how you classify gun nuts. To me a gun nut is someone who thinks the second amendment should apply equally to people with disorders such as Cho Sung Hui, Adam Lanza and James Holmes, not just normal law abiding citizens. To me a gun nut is also a law abiding citizen that thinks the NRA gives two bits of rooster poop about his or her constitutional rights.

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Guns make you a badass. Anyone with guns is a badass. 

 

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Badass.

 

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Badass.

 

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Why do so many Americans eagerly surrender more of any of the constitutionally protected rights? People are quick to say gun nuts are full of fear but what is the need to surrender rights? Oh right, for "safety" (read: fear).

We own a shotgun and a rifle. We've made the sane, logical jump that someone checking if we should own these things isn't infringing on our rights. It isn't the fear. It's the paranoia. The paranoia that a police state is coming.

 

But then again, I don't see the police state coming because I'm one of the "sheep". 

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