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As a firearm enthusiast, the answer to "How many guys does one need?" is always "Just one more." <grin> It's a fun hobby that I can spend time with my kids. Th

As a firearm enthusiast, the answer to "How many guys does one need?" is always "Just one more." <grin> It's a fun hobby that I can spend time with my kids. They also make great investments as a quality firearm holds it worth and often increases in value.

mindcrime 7y ago
Yeah, take any hobby or sport or whatever that involves "gear" of some sort, and you'll get some variation of the old saw: "The correct number of $ITEM to own is n+1, where n is the number you own now." $ITEM can be "mountain bikes", "guitars", "road bikes", "motorcycles", "guns" or pretty much anything.
- paulddraper 7y ago
  Yeah, I think it's fair to say that stamp collectors have tend to have more than "necessary" number of postage stamps.
jfk13 7y ago
And of course, the more of them we have around, the better the chances that one of them will somehow accidentally get misused one day. Oh, sorry; I'm sure you're entirely careful and responsible, all the time, just like every other firearms buyer. So there's clearly no problem with having an ever-increasing number of them around.
- sDlEzAtyoNAz 7y ago
  And the better chances that one will be used intentionally to protect a productive and decent member of society from a violent criminal.
  - fjsolwmv 7y ago
    That's certainly the fantasy.
    - sDlEzAtyoNAz 7y ago
      You say fantasy, surveys say thing that happens hundreds of thousands of times per year in the US. I think I'll believe the surveys on this matter.
    - dfrage 7y ago
      It is undisputed that there are a great many legitimate "defensive gun uses" per year. How many is of great dispute, getting into minutiae all the way down to survey question branching due to an unbridgeable cultural gap, but please don't deny even the lowest estimates of tens of thousands.
    - captainredbeard 7y ago
      The numbers are on the side of gun owners and advocates. I'd be inclined to think that competing theories based on feelings would be more fantastical... even if the surveys are off by two orders of magnitude, the defensive uses outweigh mass shooting deaths.
- CompanionCuuube 7y ago
  > Oh, sorry; I'm sure you're entirely careful and responsible, all the time, just like every other firearms buyer. So there's clearly no problem with having an ever-increasing number of them around. Fully agree.
- dfrage 7y ago
  Your fear has not come to pass. From 1980 to 2016, the last year the CDC has statistics for accidental gun deaths, they went from 800 to 500. At the same time the population increased by roughly 50%, and the rate of gun ownership increased dramatically as, for example, shall issue or better concealed carry swept the nation and made gun ownership a lot more useful for most of the people in most of the states.
- icelancer 7y ago
  Firearms collectors don't generally collect the types of guns used in a majority of crimes, which are cheap handguns and carbines. They are usually collecting rifles and shotguns. You'll find that the data overwhelmingly supports that cheap semi-automatic handguns are responsible for the majority of shootings out there, despite the media coverage of mass shootings often using an AR-15.

mindcrime 7y ago

Yeah, take any hobby or sport or whatever that involves "gear" of some sort, and you'll get some variation of the old saw: "The correct number of $ITEM to own is n+1, where n is the number you own now." $ITEM can be "mountain bikes", "guitars", "road bikes", "motorcycles", "guns" or pretty much anything.

paulddraper 7y ago
Yeah, I think it's fair to say that stamp collectors have tend to have more than "necessary" number of postage stamps.

jfk13 7y ago

And of course, the more of them we have around, the better the chances that one of them will somehow accidentally get misused one day. Oh, sorry; I'm sure you're entirely careful and responsible, all the time, just like every other firearms buyer. So there's clearly no problem with having an ever-increasing number of them around.

sDlEzAtyoNAz 7y ago
And the better chances that one will be used intentionally to protect a productive and decent member of society from a violent criminal.
- fjsolwmv 7y ago
  That's certainly the fantasy.
  - sDlEzAtyoNAz 7y ago
    You say fantasy, surveys say thing that happens hundreds of thousands of times per year in the US. I think I'll believe the surveys on this matter.
  - dfrage 7y ago
    It is undisputed that there are a great many legitimate "defensive gun uses" per year. How many is of great dispute, getting into minutiae all the way down to survey question branching due to an unbridgeable cultural gap, but please don't deny even the lowest estimates of tens of thousands.
  - captainredbeard 7y ago
    The numbers are on the side of gun owners and advocates. I'd be inclined to think that competing theories based on feelings would be more fantastical... even if the surveys are off by two orders of magnitude, the defensive uses outweigh mass shooting deaths.
CompanionCuuube 7y ago
> Oh, sorry; I'm sure you're entirely careful and responsible, all the time, just like every other firearms buyer. So there's clearly no problem with having an ever-increasing number of them around. Fully agree.
dfrage 7y ago
Your fear has not come to pass. From 1980 to 2016, the last year the CDC has statistics for accidental gun deaths, they went from 800 to 500. At the same time the population increased by roughly 50%, and the rate of gun ownership increased dramatically as, for example, shall issue or better concealed carry swept the nation and made gun ownership a lot more useful for most of the people in most of the states.
icelancer 7y ago
Firearms collectors don't generally collect the types of guns used in a majority of crimes, which are cheap handguns and carbines. They are usually collecting rifles and shotguns. You'll find that the data overwhelmingly supports that cheap semi-automatic handguns are responsible for the majority of shootings out there, despite the media coverage of mass shootings often using an AR-15.