Gun Control & RKBA

Kang Colby

(1,941 posts) Sun Nov 1, 2015, 10:57 AM Nov 2015

The NRA is not demographically challenged.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/frankminiter/2015/10/30/the-nra-is-not-demographically-challenged/

The recent ongoing controller meme is that gun ownership is dying off. Soon gun ownership will be a relic of the extinct, ageing, uneducated white male they tell us.

I hate to share the bad news with controllers, but gun ownership is increasing across every measurable demographic. This four page piece by Frank Miniter does a good job of cutting through the emotion and getting to the facts.

Its surprising that millenials, who were raised on Call of Duty, and low violent crime rates aren't eager to join the dozen or so controllers on Tuesday afternoons to bang on tambourines outside of HRA HQ.

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The NRA is not demographically challenged. (Original Post) Kang Colby Nov 2015 OP

How surprising! More RW clap trap from Forbes. LonePirate Nov 2015 #1

Yeah, you keep on believing that, GGJohn Nov 2015 #2

USA Today? Pew Research? Right Wing? Ba-WAH-HA!.... Eleanors38 Nov 2015 #3

as marketing arm of the gun industry the NRA is quite effective. what piles of bodies? nt msongs Nov 2015 #4

What marketing arm? Silicosys4 Nov 2015 #5

The U.S. gun industry tripled between 2007 and 2013 krispos42 Nov 2015 #7

Yes I always knew that bluestateguy Nov 2015 #6

LonePirate

(13,874 posts)

1. How surprising! More RW clap trap from Forbes.

Reply to Kang Colby (Original post)

Sun Nov 1, 2015, 11:11 AM

Nov 2015

And it offers nothing to disprove the report it aims to discredit, although it attempts to fool readers into thinking it discredits Miniter by providing unrelated stats and studies.

GGJohn

(9,951 posts)

2. Yeah, you keep on believing that,

Reply to LonePirate (Reply #1)

Sun Nov 1, 2015, 11:14 AM

Nov 2015

in the meanwhile, firearm ownership is increasing as evidenced by all the new applications for a FOID in IL.

Eleanors38

(18,318 posts)

3. USA Today? Pew Research? Right Wing? Ba-WAH-HA!....

Reply to LonePirate (Reply #1)

Sun Nov 1, 2015, 01:35 PM

Nov 2015

The OP cited USA Today (a blood-thirsty outfit which wants GUNZ EVERYWHERE!), and Pew Resarch, which links to its own data under "Growing Public Support for Gun Rights," and the dramatically changing attitudes toward gun ownership among blacks and women.

Just because MSM, in its shrinking impact on public policy, is agit-prop for gun-control doesn't and won't willingly publish even fair articles about guns, doesn't mean you can't find dramatically different findings and accuracy. Findings even MSM allows to slip through.

msongs

(70,086 posts)

4. as marketing arm of the gun industry the NRA is quite effective. what piles of bodies? nt

Reply to Kang Colby (Original post)

Sun Nov 1, 2015, 01:50 PM

Nov 2015

Silicosys4

(26 posts)

5. What marketing arm?

Reply to msongs (Reply #4)

Sun Nov 1, 2015, 02:15 PM

Nov 2015

The millions of dues paying NRA members say differently.

krispos42

(49,445 posts)

7. The U.S. gun industry tripled between 2007 and 2013

Reply to msongs (Reply #4)

Sun Nov 1, 2015, 08:46 PM

Nov 2015

I'm talking number of guns made. Also, imports of guns doubled in the same seven-year period.

The NRA didn't do that.

The Democratic Party's platform of useless pandering laws and affiliation with disarmament crusaders that care only that a law attacks "gun nuts" has done that.

But keep right on tilting for assault weapon bans as a panacea for mass shootings.

bluestateguy

(44,173 posts)

6. Yes I always knew that

Reply to Kang Colby (Original post)

Sun Nov 1, 2015, 06:34 PM

Nov 2015

The NRA and gun owners in general are not demographically dying out.

The Republican Party, however, is another story.

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