Pew Research Study. Pew is preferred by Republicans, so this should be easy to digest. Pew states there are upto 310 million guns on the streets of the USA and Marines, US Marines are sitting in a shopping mall with absolutely no way to defend themselves.
Does anyone think being a Marine is carrying a gun?
June 4, 2013
There are by various estimates (click here) anywhere from 270 million to 310 million guns in the United States — close to one firearm for every man, woman and child. But in point of fact, only a minority of Americans own guns.
Gun ownership is one of the hardest things for researchers to pin down (as the Pew Research Center’s Michael Dimock, among others, discusses here). A Pew Research Center survey conducted in February found that 37% of households had an adult who owned a gun — 24% said they owned a gun, and 13% said someone else in their household did....
Does anyone think a Marine knows how to handle a gun and discern an enemy? Am I alone in thinking maybe, just maybe those Marines would know they shouldn't shot through the walls, but, instead at the man shooting at them?
Anyone who believes those Marines should not be wearing body armor is completely in a world the rest of us don't live in.
HERE IS A CLUE.
The shooter of former US Representative Giffords bought his munitions at Walmart. Any guess how many Walmarts are in the USA?
1.3 million U.S. associates at more than 5,000 stores and clubs nationwide.
Shopping malls. In case this analogy is too much for those important in giving orders to Marines, that means there are about 100 Walmart stores that sell bullets and all sorts of gun paraphernalia in every state of the union including Hawaii and Alaska. How many shopping malls in the USA DON'T carry weapons? NONE. It is a safe guess the Marine recruiting stations should not be in shopping malls.
What goes on in the minds of those that make decisions about the life and death of Marines? They need to rethink the fact the lives of CURRENT marines are more important than the people they'll recruit.
Does anyone think being a Marine is carrying a gun?
June 4, 2013
There are by various estimates (click here) anywhere from 270 million to 310 million guns in the United States — close to one firearm for every man, woman and child. But in point of fact, only a minority of Americans own guns.
Gun ownership is one of the hardest things for researchers to pin down (as the Pew Research Center’s Michael Dimock, among others, discusses here). A Pew Research Center survey conducted in February found that 37% of households had an adult who owned a gun — 24% said they owned a gun, and 13% said someone else in their household did....
Does anyone think a Marine knows how to handle a gun and discern an enemy? Am I alone in thinking maybe, just maybe those Marines would know they shouldn't shot through the walls, but, instead at the man shooting at them?
Anyone who believes those Marines should not be wearing body armor is completely in a world the rest of us don't live in.
HERE IS A CLUE.
The shooter of former US Representative Giffords bought his munitions at Walmart. Any guess how many Walmarts are in the USA?
1.3 million U.S. associates at more than 5,000 stores and clubs nationwide.
Shopping malls. In case this analogy is too much for those important in giving orders to Marines, that means there are about 100 Walmart stores that sell bullets and all sorts of gun paraphernalia in every state of the union including Hawaii and Alaska. How many shopping malls in the USA DON'T carry weapons? NONE. It is a safe guess the Marine recruiting stations should not be in shopping malls.
What goes on in the minds of those that make decisions about the life and death of Marines? They need to rethink the fact the lives of CURRENT marines are more important than the people they'll recruit.
