An amazing case for reducing gun ownership in America
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Bruddah IZ
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What else did you find?
Bryson shot himself last January with a .22-caliber Derringer his grandmother kept under the bed. It was an accident, but one that could be blamed on many factors, from his grandmother’s negligence to the failure of government and industry to find ways to prevent his death and so many others.
You want government to be in charge of your kids safety in the home?
The culture is sick.
We need to bring it back to civility.
We also need to deal very harshly with anyone who wants to poison it.
We need to bring it back to civility.
We also need to deal very harshly with anyone who wants to poison it.
Wez
DA
Your analogy, not mine.
Bruddah IZ
DA
Bozo thinks the government and industry should be responsible for what happens in your home regarding gun safety.
Is this another one of your jokes?
I dont need them in my home.
Sheriff Joe
DA
That's because you don't need them making decisions for you like the lemmings around here do.
Wez
DA
Tell the dead kids parents, not me.
Exactly.
Let the lemmings run the lemming herds, and leave me out of it.
Bruddah IZ
DA
You forgot protection...it was the #1 reason for firearms.
How much hunting and sustenance does a dead man need?
Regarding hunting in the USA:
There were 13.7 million hunters in the United States over age 16 -- 12.7 million of whom used rifles, shotguns or handguns for hunting, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Hunting Facts
As of 2012, hunters and target shooters have paid more than $7.2 billion in excise taxes through the Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act since its passage in 1937.
Sportsmen and women contribute nearly $8 million a day to support wildlife and wildlife agencies.
An average hunter spends $2,484 every year on the sport.
Teenage girls are the fastest growing market in sport shooting.
According to research, 72 percent more women are hunting with firearms today than just five years ago. And 50 percent more women are now target shooting.
Americans hunt a combined 282 million days per year. Thats an average of 21 days per hunter.
More than 38 million Americans hunt and fish.
Hunters and anglers support more than 680,000 US jobs.
Through license sales and excise taxes on equipment, hunters and anglers pay for most fish and wildlife conservation programs.
More Americans hunt and shoot than play baseball.
Firearms are involved in less than 1% of all accidental fatalities. More Americans are killed in accidents involving vending machines than guns.
Hunting gear sales are growing faster than all other sporting goods categories, with 38.3 billion spent in 2011.
Americans annually buy more than 1 billion shotshells.
Non-resident hunting license, tag, stamp and permit sales have risen 41.2 percent since 1993.
Top selling sporting goods: 1.) exercise equipment, 2.) golf gear, 3.) hunting gear.
Hunting overall brought in more revenue ($38.3 billion) than Google ($37.9 billion) or Goldman Sachs Group ($36.8 billion).
Sources: US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS); 2001 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation; Southwick Associates. Hunting in America: An Economic Force for Conservation. Produced for the National Shooting Sports Foundation in partnership with the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies. 2012
Thoughts on Hunters, this is an interesting slant on things. The world’s largest army; America’s hunters! I had never thought about this, but a blogger added up the deer license sales in just a handful of states and arrived at a striking conclusion:
There were over 600,000 hunters this season in the state of Wisconsin. Allow me to restate that number: 600,000. Over the last several months, Wisconsin’s hunters became the eighth largest army in the world: more men in arms than in Iran. More than France and Germany combined. These men and women deployed to the woods of a single American state, Wisconsin, to hunt with firearms, and no one was killed.
That number pales in comparison to the 750,000 who hunted the woods of Pennsylvania and Michigan’s 700,000 hunters, all of whom have now returned home safely. Toss in a quarter million hunters in West Virginia and it literally establishes the fact that the hunters of those four states alone would comprise the largest army in the world. And then add in the total number of hunters in the other 46 states. It’s millions more.
The point? America will forever be safe from foreign invasion with that kind of home-grown firepower. Hunting, it’s not just a way to fill the freezer; it’s a matter of national security. That’s why all enemies, foreign and domestic, want to see us disarmed. Food for thought, when next we consider gun control.
http://nation.foxnews.com/2013/11/04/american-hunters-–-world’s-largest-army
There were 13.7 million hunters in the United States over age 16 -- 12.7 million of whom used rifles, shotguns or handguns for hunting, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Hunting Facts
As of 2012, hunters and target shooters have paid more than $7.2 billion in excise taxes through the Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act since its passage in 1937.
Sportsmen and women contribute nearly $8 million a day to support wildlife and wildlife agencies.
An average hunter spends $2,484 every year on the sport.
Teenage girls are the fastest growing market in sport shooting.
According to research, 72 percent more women are hunting with firearms today than just five years ago. And 50 percent more women are now target shooting.
Americans hunt a combined 282 million days per year. Thats an average of 21 days per hunter.
More than 38 million Americans hunt and fish.
Hunters and anglers support more than 680,000 US jobs.
Through license sales and excise taxes on equipment, hunters and anglers pay for most fish and wildlife conservation programs.
More Americans hunt and shoot than play baseball.
Firearms are involved in less than 1% of all accidental fatalities. More Americans are killed in accidents involving vending machines than guns.
Hunting gear sales are growing faster than all other sporting goods categories, with 38.3 billion spent in 2011.
Americans annually buy more than 1 billion shotshells.
Non-resident hunting license, tag, stamp and permit sales have risen 41.2 percent since 1993.
Top selling sporting goods: 1.) exercise equipment, 2.) golf gear, 3.) hunting gear.
Hunting overall brought in more revenue ($38.3 billion) than Google ($37.9 billion) or Goldman Sachs Group ($36.8 billion).
Sources: US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS); 2001 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation; Southwick Associates. Hunting in America: An Economic Force for Conservation. Produced for the National Shooting Sports Foundation in partnership with the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies. 2012
Thoughts on Hunters, this is an interesting slant on things. The world’s largest army; America’s hunters! I had never thought about this, but a blogger added up the deer license sales in just a handful of states and arrived at a striking conclusion:
There were over 600,000 hunters this season in the state of Wisconsin. Allow me to restate that number: 600,000. Over the last several months, Wisconsin’s hunters became the eighth largest army in the world: more men in arms than in Iran. More than France and Germany combined. These men and women deployed to the woods of a single American state, Wisconsin, to hunt with firearms, and no one was killed.
That number pales in comparison to the 750,000 who hunted the woods of Pennsylvania and Michigan’s 700,000 hunters, all of whom have now returned home safely. Toss in a quarter million hunters in West Virginia and it literally establishes the fact that the hunters of those four states alone would comprise the largest army in the world. And then add in the total number of hunters in the other 46 states. It’s millions more.
The point? America will forever be safe from foreign invasion with that kind of home-grown firepower. Hunting, it’s not just a way to fill the freezer; it’s a matter of national security. That’s why all enemies, foreign and domestic, want to see us disarmed. Food for thought, when next we consider gun control.
http://nation.foxnews.com/2013/11/04/american-hunters-–-world’s-largest-army
Sheriff Joe
DA
These Sarah Brady types must be educated to understand that because we have an armed citizenry, a dictatorship has not happened in America. These anti-gun fools are more dangerous to liberty than street criminals or foreign spies. - Theodore Haas, Dachau Survivor
We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions. – Ronald Reagan
We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions. – Ronald Reagan
Wez
DA
The ones I posted a story about, cunt.
You can't be this stupid. We are saved, now, from a would-be dictatorship by our military. Whichever side they are on wins. It has zero to do with an armed citizenry. What century do you think this is?
Wez
DA
We ask that question in here way too much...