Quote Originally Posted by leo9 View Post
(F)amiliar spectacle of the Right pointing its guns in exactly the wrong direction,

Again I am perforce required to view this as an attempt at an allegory. But you must agree that taking it only as written is intended to imply that all the guns belong to the right. Presuming that real guns are those referred to, since the right does not currently have the power of Washington, does it not seem silly to suggest that some 40% of the population owns 100% of the guns?

"The number of guns owned by civilians in the United States is between 238 million and 276 million, ..., the study by the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva" The US gun stock: results from the 2004 national firearms survey

"38% of households and 26% of individuals reported owning at least one firearm. This corresponds to 42 million US households with firearms, and 57 million adult gun owners." (Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA)
This works out to around four guns per owner. However if we apply the statistical data that about 40% of the population is Conservative these figures now become 22.8 million conservatives owning 238 million firearms, with 10.5 firearms each. The second seems quite preposterous.

Yes I know Gun ownership is not evenly spread.