From our point of view, your article wins hands down, Since9! It's quite positive, but relatively lengthy. I never claimed the article I posted was positive, uplifting or even entertaining - just "interesting". However, the opening paragraph was a statement with which most of us would wholeheartedly agree.
And I, as well.
Sorry about my confusion - I wasn't aware you were the one who posted the article.
As for , if you think about it in "the big picture", he's right that most of the general population is unarmed . Statistically, the average gun owner owns 7 firearms, and there are enough privately-owned firearms in the country to supply roughly 300,000,000 people. If that stat is
close to accurate it means that a small minority (folks like
us) of 4,285,714 are armed. Would we share those arms with friends/family if the need arose? I can't speak for anybody but me... and I
damn sure would!
Pax...
About half of U.S. households have firearms, although there are as many firearms in the U.S. as there are motor vehicles. Given the rate of accidental deaths due to firearms is about 1,100 annually while the vehicular rate is about 32,000 annually, one can state with statistical accuracy, that motor vehicles are approximately 30 times more likely to be the cause of an accidental death than a firearm.
Having said that, while the "average" gun owner owns 7 firearms, that's a misnomer, as it's a single-tailed curve, not a bell curve. Half the people in the U.S. do not own a firearm. Many people own a single firearm. Some own two or three. A small minority own many firearms. Mathematically it works out to 7 per owner, but the
median is 2.
Thanks for the nod on the article!
PS: A little bit more about RYOC: I created the forums for the express purpose not merely of just talking about issues like these, but for formulating organized responses, sort of skimming the best ideas off the top of a sea of ideas, and presenting them to the powers that be in a manner that would be impossible for them to ignore. It's my goal to avoid becoming another WND, but rather, to toss aside rhetoric and get all sides to sit down and hammer out the crux of the issues, down to brass tacks.
I need all the help I can get in terms of getting the forums off the ground! It'll take perhaps a couple hundred seed posts, say about twenty in each of its twelve forums, to get it moving. As those are going in I'll ramp up the SEO effort to attract new members. Any help you and others might provide would be most welcome!