Tenuous Market Balance of Supply & Demand

[gemihur]

Well, I guess a few of you guys have attended a Hunter Orientation/Safety Course before. At one point during every presentation a pie chart will appear denoting the public’s population and their affinities toward hunting. This graph depicts that 80% of the populace are not involved in hunting, that 10% are anti-hunters, and that 10% represents us, the hunters.
"It is our responsibility", the instructor then informs us," that we not disrupt this delicate balance by displaying unsportsmanlike conduct while hunting or show disrespect toward landowner or nature and swaying any opinions of the 80% into the anti-hunter portion of the pie".
Our markets of supply and demand are as fragile a ratio balance as the pie chart depicted above. The markets economic balance doesn’t like uncertainty. Our present administration’s attitude, when it comes to the shooting sports, does more than propagate uncertainty, it breeds fear, an emotion that cannot be foreseen in its outcome by statistical projection.
When a minute portion of the otherwise uninvolved masses, the 80%, are thusly motivated to join the consumptive group of hunters in their quest to acquire shooting related supplies it sways the delicate balance of supply and demand of those commodities far out of whack and results in what we see today.

 

[nascarfantoo]

Lot of truth in that. Fear results in high consumption ... limited supply resutls in more fear ... and on it goes.

 

[warthog]

well that was informative.

 

[gemihur]

What I hope these ideas motivate, is that our elected officials, from the Police Chief to our commander in chief, be held to a higher standard. One that binds them to the belief that they are in office to uphold the constitution and not cave to the lily-livered public opinions that have become so popular at present. And if we the public who put them in their seat see that they are not living up to our expectations remove them from office! What part of "shall not be infringed" is lost in translation?

 

[warthog]

They are there to curry Public favor and they do this via reading Public Opinion.

Sadly there are so many gun owners who try to "stay off the radar" that they simply refuse to write to their representation or call any sort of attention to themselves that can be used in any way to even show the possibility they own a gun. (while post all the time on the interweb gun forums which always makes me laugh) As long as they can pretend they are off the radar of the authorities, they feel this is their best way to continue to own guns.

So instead of being an overwhelming public voice, we leave that mostly to lobby groups. Like somehow as long as you are a member of the NRA, GOA and whatever, that's enough. Since they show as part of the group and that will show them all they need to know about what they think. They somehow don't get how much more power there is in millions of single voices all telling these folks the same thing. Each one a voter and each one speaking in unison rather than letting some lobby do it is far more effective.

So it isn't lost in the translation, it's ignored in favor of pretending they can do both, have thier guns and not show up as a gun owner as far as the authorities see.
This can better be called pure and is easily why when the Anti Gun lobby speaks, they tend to get more attention than we do.
It's not all media bias ignoring us or painting us as kooks and whack jobs, we do that fine to ourselves.

 

[gemihur]

I agree with you ,warthog, that a visible and vigilant gunowner is what we all should strive to be...