Shower Thought about Guns - I don't really care that much about them - I'm not scared of them - I've shot a few - I'm just not into them - death and destruction are not appealing to me - but its weird how many people gather around the 2nd amendment when no one uses it to stand up to gov't oppression

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I think people like the idea of it, more than the reality.

And also any real action based on this would require some sort of "tipping point" as it requires mass engagement. No one person is using the 2nd amendment on their own to change government laws.

Lastly, the gun industry in the US is HUGE. They have to maintain gun sales, and there is no hot external war going on right now, so they've switched to advertising to domestic markets. They play on people's fear as a basis to make sales. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Biggest_arms_sales_2013.png/300px-Biggest_arms_sales_2013.png

The number of guns in the US has been about constant in the last couple decades, but it has shifted from many people owning few guns, to few people owning many guns. The gun industry loves those people who stockpile 300+ guns "Just in case". That is probably their main driver of sales right now.

So, in my super-cynical take on this, the big gusto about the 2nd amendment we hear about so often in the media and forums, is actually just advertising for gun companies. And many of the gun advocates don't even realize that's the only real purpose they're serving, most of the time. They're buying guns to feed their fantasy about some scenario in the future, not because they're actually using them. And the advertising feeds right in to this sort of mentality.