Suggested New Years Resolutions for the NRA by kpete (Locked on GD-cut and pasted here)

[beevul]

21. Aww poor jimmy, you missed something.

beevul: As directed by whom, Jimmy?

Jimmy: Typically Gun Owners...


One minor problem with that Jimmy.

There are 300+ million guns owned 80+ million people, and yet there are 10 thousandish homicides.


So "typical" gun owners, are NOT directing their firearms as you claim.


So bzzt, thanks for playing.


"beevul: I love it when doctrinaire gun control advocates ramble on about the "gun industry". Civilian legal firearms manufacturing is one of the smallest industries there is in America, and it makes me smile to see people like you characterize it as "big evil gun"..


Jimmy: I believe civilian firearms mftr'g comprises ~60% of overall firearm sales, 40% to law enf & military. But how does being in the lesser half of overall industrial giants who generally appeal to more people, dismiss the profit motive to you?

And then you go on to quote unfiltered numbers as if they are representative of domestic sales.

I'm unsurprised.

And hey, what I said, stands. MFG of firearms and ammunition for domestic sales and ownership is a drop in the bucket of just about every other industry. though I'm not sure it even counts to count ammunition, since guns have ALWAYS been legal and sold in America and people would prefer ammunition in their guns to fire them.