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Originally Posted by jimbomaybe
You have brought up "obscene" profits of the gun manufactures (more than once?) they sell guns because people want to own them, not as much for fear of a mass shooter but the run of the mill criminal that has little or no fear of punishment
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I agree that home break-in is probably the main reason US people purchase guns (years ago it was for the sport of hunting)., I am saying that the profit margin on an AR-15-style weapon is MUCH greater than a hunting rifle. The gun manufacturers point their advertisement toward influencing gun buyers to DESIRE the more expensive, high-profit margin military-style weapons with expensive accessories like 30-round magazines. They have done this by creating the illusion that each gun owner's home will be attacked by a 20 man platoon of crazed, drug-infected, zombie home-burglar death squads - this provides the justification for the purchase of an expensive, "tricked-out" semi-automatic man-killing machines of death - plus they look "COOL" to the Butthead and Beavis reptilian mindset.
When in reality.......a short-barreled shotgun is the best home defense weapon.........and relatively inexpensive.