you can legally buy a handgun from a unlicensed dealer (private) at 18, if memory serves, with no background check. I believe you can get a long-gun from a licensed dealer at 18 and no age limit from a unlicensed dealer.
it is harder to get booze, absolutely!
are you sure you are not just a troll poster?
i grew up playing in the woods with a .22LR; I've owned handguns, shotguns and rifles though I'm down to just a shotgun and rifle at this point. I occasionally hunt as a social thing. I've been around guns and hunting my entire life. My BIL tags out and eats deer basically all year because he can, not because he needs to.
There are a handful of people who hunt to add some extra food to the table but again, that's a miniscule portion of the population and heavily regulating the use of firearms for such things is possible. MOdern crossbows are as or more effective than a rifle or shotgun at this point for most animals, if it's really about sustenance.
Guns are totally unnecessary in American life except as a pastime/hobby.
I mean the data (Juice just posted a graph depicting it) shows that more guns in a society = more gun-related deaths in a society. That's not really even arguable.
So the only argument pro-gun people should be making is that the recreational/hunting/protection aspect of guns makes it worth the excess deaths caused by the guns. If you can't successfully make that argument, you should be for the decrease in the supply of guns in the country, through whatever means necessary to decrease the supply/availability.
I wonder if the "handful of people" that subsist on wild game are larger than the group of people who are killed by firearms. I don't know, but I bet the subsisters are a larger group of people. They'd just have to be > ~15,000.
"According to the USDA's latest Household Food Insecurity in the United States report, more than 35 million people in the United States experienced hunger in 2019. Households with children are more likely to experience food insecurity."
I wonder if the "handful of people" that subsist on wild game are larger than the group of people who are killed by firearms. I don't know, but I bet the subsisters are a larger group of people. They'd just have to be > ~15,000.
"According to the USDA's latest Household Food Insecurity in the United States report, more than 35 million people in the United States experienced hunger in 2019. Households with children are more likely to experience food insecurity."
man, i hate these conversations. it's crazy how intractable gun advocates are
Anyway the important thing is that the Responsible Firearm Owners are here, defending their fellow Firearm Owners Rights And Feelings, rather than deciding to actually do something about it and make contributions to one of these organizations. https://blog.greatnonprofits.org/9-organizations-making-progress-towards-gun-control/
If you can’t police the bad apples, eventually we will put every legal way to get guns out of business and force you to become felons to buy a gun. Make your choice but someday one of your people is going to go too far and shoot 1,000 people or something.
what does that have to do with anything
How many gun advocates are on this thread? Knight?
Seemed to be an important point debating point about how hard it is for a teen to get a beer.
Guarantee you we can feed these people a lot easier than we can bring the dead back to life.