Have we reached a tipping point in the culture war as re guns?
It’s not a new point – if you’ve listened to my show, you’ve heard the story.
But this past year, 40% of gun sales were to people outside the “white male who’s already got a bunch of guns” stereotype:
Not only were people who already had guns buying more, but people who had never owned one were buying them too. New preliminary data from Northeastern University and the Harvard Injury Control Research Center show that about a fifth of all Americans who bought guns last year were first-time gun owners. And the data, which has not been previously released, showed that new owners were less likely than usual to be male and white. Half were women, a fifth were Black and a fifth were Hispanic.
In all, the data found that 39 percent of American households own guns. That is up from 32 percent in 2016, according to the General Social Survey, a public opinion poll conducted by a research center at the University of Chicago. Researchers said it was too early to tell whether the uptick represents a reversal from the past 20 years, in which ownership was basically flat.
Further evidence (along with the fact that younger Americans overwhelmingly support the right to keep and bear arms) of this thesis.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/an-arms-race-in-america-gun-buying-spiked-during-the-pandemic-its-still-up/ar-AAKvZfB?fbclid=IwAR3XpPNFnN3AzvSBuOo0Lg1yYnPyr606bKqagbSsPdSkYuIWo5cFxPEFA90
I shoot at Stock and Barrel in Eagan.
Black, white, Asian, men, women, old and young.
Lots of people taking classes.
And the range is always busy.
I guess that’s what progressives are afraid of.
New gun owners, of course, should take a safety course at the minimum, and CC class as soon as possible (even if they don’t plan to carry). I also highly recommend that newbies check out Paul Harrell’s YouTube channel, in particular this video (part 2 of the video can be found there as well).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiE1pUXEAHM&t=2s
You know it’s funny, the message coming out of the *administration is still “its a gun problem”. They must see the polling numbers. Are they lying to themselves, deluding themselves? Is it just due to a disjointed house, given how feeble jello brain is?
related to a past and continuing discussion here:
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1399773771171565571
We’ve got to do something about these groups of guns randomly roaming St. Paul and Minneapolis and Florida, looking for trouble and shooting people.
I am a gun guy. Tipping point was quite a while ago. I’d use a different idiom, the Overton Window for the potentiality of more restrictive gun control. I haven’t worried about gun control since it became obvious Heller was going to go our way. If one questions whether that analysis was right, well, Sandy Hook happened, and no new gun control.
If John Kraephammer is a gun guy, he’s a really, really young gun guy.
This:
“Sandy Hook happened, and no new gun control”
leaves out a lot.
Regarding gun control and the Heller decision, it was only in 2016 that Democrats were salivating at the prospect of replacing the author of the Heller decision with someone more to the liking of the Brady Bunch. It was only last year that the Democrats cried foul at the elevation of another conservative to the bench, as they again wanted to erode the pro-liberty majority.
And it was only last year, it appears, that the Democrats, media, and bureaucracy appear to have pulled out the stops to get rid of Bad Orange Man and replace him with Chance the Gardener. Whether we like it or not, freedom is not secure unless men of good will secure it.