Scientific America Joins Effort To Stigmatize Gun Ownership

By Tom Knighton

There’s a push underway in this country to stigmatize gun ownership. The effort is designed to try and use peer pressure to push gun owners to either get rid of their weapons or find themselves pushed to the fringes of society. The idea is that once we’re there, they can present whatever bull they want to and we’ll all be too “fringe” for others to listen to.

We’ve seen it left and right, from people referring to the NRA as a terrorist organization to claiming that gun owners are somehow in favor of kids being killed.

Now, Scientific America is joining in the fray by running a story that claims white men are stockpiling guns.

Since the 2008 election of President Obama, the number of firearms manufactured in the U.S. has tripled, while imports have doubled. This doesn’t mean more households have guns than ever before—that percentage has stayed fairly steady for decades. Rather, more guns are being stockpiled by a small number of individuals. Three percent of the population now owns half of the country’s firearms, says a recent, definitive study from the Injury Control Research Center at Harvard University.

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Source:: Bearing Arms