On 26 November 2013 14:19, Jason Resch <jasonre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It's not the lobby that is powerful or wealthy, (the NRA has only 4 > million members), it's that there are a large number of gun owners in > america and many of them are willing to vote to maintain their right to > continue to own one. Over 50% of adult males and over 50% of households in > the US own a gun. It isn't the lobby that keeps the politicians from > passing anti-gun legislation, it is the voters. (e.g., We wouldn't say > there is a rich and powerful reproductive rights lobby (it's that it is an > important issue to a large segment of the population)). >
Guns aren't in the same league as "reproductive rights" (which were of course successfully legislated for decades in China). A lot of people want to reproduce, but most people don't want to own guns. You don't hear people in countries other than the US objecting because they don't have a gun in every household, or (hehe) banging on about how everyone should have some God-given right to be able to shoot other people whenever they feel like it . Who taught Americans that they needed so many more guns than anyone in any other country wants to own? Most people in most countries hardly ever *see* a gun (except on TV shows imported from the US). I don't feel that I'm being deprived because I don't own a gun, and I suspect the same is true of about 95% of the world's population. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
