Is There Any Reality in the Gun Debate?

For you folks out there who are concerned about gun violence but don’t know all that much about guns, I recommend you spend some time going through the website of Ballistic Magazine, which to my mind is the best and most illustrative resource for understanding everything you need to know about guns and the people who buy and own guns.

Note I didn’t refer to the population which ‘has’ guns, because when it comes to the population which has guns but didn’t go through a background check to get their hands on a gun, we don’t know anything about them at all.

And guess which group makes no distinction between the two gun-owning populations — it’s the group which happens to manufacture the guns. In fact, what gun makers know about their industry is that whenever a law is about to be passed which will increase gun regulations, gun sales go up. Then after the law is passed, gun sales decline.

Guns aren’t like cars. You need a car or you can’t live a normal life. And although the gun industry has been trying like all get out to convince Americans that guns should be nothing more than a normal ‘tool,’ like a hammer or a screwdriver, with an ever-increasing number of Americans, this bullshit just doesn’t fly.

I love how all these so-called gun ‘trainers’ refer to guns as ‘tools.’ Yesterday I took a walk in a…