Some Scary Gun Facts

[Ric]

Wow..... Our population in the state of Florida is 19.3 million people, I didn't know we had that many people living here. An interesting fact is that we have 1,000,645 people in the state of Fl. who have gun carry permits, that's 1 in every 19 people. The second busiest day of the year for buying a weapon was Black Friday, there were 6802 back ground checks done. The busiest day this year was the day after the NewTown shooting, back ground checks numbered 6945. Now while your looking these numbers................... Think about something,There just FLORIDA NUMBERS

 

[metz12]

Wow..... Our population in the state of Florida is 19.3 million people, I didn't know we had that many people living here. An interesting fact is that we have 1,000,645 people in the state of Fl. who have gun carry permits, that's 1 in every 19 people. The second busiest day of the year for buying a weapon was Black Friday, there were 6802 back ground checks done. The busiest day this year was the day after the NewTown shooting, back ground checks numbered 6945. Now while your looking these numbers................... Think about something,There just FLORIDA NUMBERS

I bet that alot of those people bought guns the day after the shooting so they could be protected if something were to happen like that.

 

[reynoldston]

If there over a million guns in Florida now do that X's 50 that is over 50 million guns in our country? I think our government is dreaming with this gun control thing. Maybe they should think more on gun education and try to stop some of these nut cases that think they need to kill. As I see it it will never be controlled 100%.

 

[Ric]

If there over a million guns in Florida now do that X's 50 that is over 50 million guns in our country? I think our government is dreaming with this gun control thing. Maybe they should think more on gun education and try to stop some of these nut cases that think they need to kill. As I see it it will never be controlled 100%.

Yes I agree, but the scary part of that over 50 million guns in our country is that's just the ones they know about.

 

[reynoldston]

The guns they don't know about are a lot more scary then the one they do know about. Just think about it, how about these foreign countries what are fighting and you see pictures of guns and killing all over the place. That is a lot worst then anything we have here.

 

[Carscw]

It says 1 million people have carry permits so I guess that would be more like 2 million guns or more. I am not sure about Florida laws but here you only need a carry permit on a pistol if your going to conceal it. So rifles and shotguns and pistols you don't conceal are not counted under how many permits are sold.

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[Carscw]

And the number of background checks are only for those that don't already have a background card.

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[DaveTN]

Yes I agree, but the scary part of that over 50 million guns in our country is that's just the ones they know about.

What's SCARY to me is NOT having a gun when 2 young thugs decided to pull up beside me late one night and thought they'd try and drag me out of my car and beat me and rob me only to find themselves staring down the barrel of a Colt 45 Revolver! As soon as the first stringy headed blond hoodlum grabbed my car door handle he was suddenly looking at what undoubtedly appeared as a CANNON on his end! LOL He let go, threw his arms up in the air and said.."Everything's cool man!" and started doing the crawdad walk backwards. I said "It can get HOT real FAST!" only to have his dark stringy haired friend see the 45 and spin around get back in the car as he let go with an expletive deletive, turned left on a red light and gunned it down Main Street! Similar story w/ my friend who was packing concealed when he went into a roadside market/fruit stand in Florida to use the outside restroom and left his wife in the car only to be followed by 3 young black men who came in the bathroom behind him. He only showed them the pistol and all 3 turned and left in a hurry! Could just as easily been 3 Mexicans, or 3 Whites, or 3 Aleut Indians, yet the gun spoke a language they could all easily understand. When seconds count, cops are minutes away! I'll depend on myself for the most part and the gov't can bail out Wall Street and buy up car companies! In both cases the gun prevented violence and possibly death!

 

[okiepc]

I have owned guns for over half a century, have used them for sport & huting, I have never abused them or the law. Here in Oklahoma we have a "Make my Day" law, if someone enters your house uninvited in a threating manner, well, you may send them back out whence the came, so that law slowed this activity down considerabley. Used properly guns are a deterrent against crime & I use them properly.

 

[Bison]

I heard there's at least 300 million guns among the US population.