Gun nuts and their death appendages

Stupid gun dorks are idiots (Click here to read more)

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Wednesday, May 28, 2014, 1:51 pm

Atrios has been heaping scorn at the gun nuts over at his place.

    They're mad that their little hobby of showing their external death penises to the world doesn't get quite the respect that it deserves, or more importantly they're mad that they don't get quite the respect that they of course deserve and are confused that their giant external death penis waving isn't giving them that respect.

A couple of stipulations-this doesn't refer to those who live in the country and need their guns for either genuine protection or to hunt their own food. Those guys are lugging around Winchesters, Remingtons and Rugers. Not AR-15s. This doesn't refer to those who collect guns out of genuine historical interest, as opposed to "collecting" themselves their own private arsenal (no one is going around shooting up schools with flintlocks).

Nah, we're talking about those fetishists who think their guns make them macho rebel defenders of freedoms, WOLVERINES! Yeah, those assholes. The ones who have bought a record number of guns and ammo and extra-capacity magazines because a black guy was elected president. Those.

Reality is that gun ownership is on the decline.

    The gun ownership rate has fallen across a broad cross section of households since the early 1970s, according to data from the General Social Survey, a public opinion survey conducted every two years that asks a sample of American adults if they have guns at home, among other questions [...]

    The household gun ownership rate has fallen from an average of 50 percent in the 1970s to 49 percent in the 1980s, 43 percent in the 1990s and 35 percent in the 2000s, according to the survey data, analyzed by The New York Times.

    In 2012, the share of American households with guns was 34 percent, according to survey results released on Thursday.

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