On 26 November 2013 14:19, Jason Resch <[email protected]> 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
