This Is Outstanding News

[smoking357]

This is the future of gun ownership. This is what will allow our numbers to grow in an overwhelmingly urban, minority-White country.


Who's Packin' Heat in Philly?

More and more young urbanites join the right-to-carry movement.


Who's Packin' Heat in Philly? | Cover Story | News and Opinion | Philadelphia Weekly


I love this pull:


"One amazing thing about PAFOA, he says, is membership diversity. While gun owners are often stereotyped as “rednecks,” Pehrson says this couldn’t be further from the truth. One member on his site, he says, is an extreme leftist, a card-carrying socialist labor organizer. Others are Libertarians. Still others are conservatives. There’s the firearm dealer, the teacher and the journalist. The computer programmer, the cop and the stay-at-home-mom."

 

[VUPDblue]

This very article could have been pulled from any locale across most of this great nation. I have been in the "gun game" for a very long time and this exact demographic "or lack thereof" is one big red flashing beacon. Go to a gunshow and you'll mostly see the die-hards or wannabees. The quiet Joe/Jane Shooter types are all over the place and the best part is that only THEY know what they have. The quiet, non-advertising gun owner likely makes up the vast majority of gun owners IMHO, and they come from all walks of life.

 

[360]

Who advertises?

 

[Bill of Rights]

...
"One amazing thing about PAFOA, he says, is membership diversity. While gun owners are often stereotyped as “rednecks,” Pehrson says this couldn’t be further from the truth. One member on his site, he says, is an extreme leftist, a card-carrying socialist labor organizer. Others are Libertarians. Still others are conservatives. There’s the firearm dealer, the teacher and the journalist. The computer programmer, the cop and the stay-at-home-mom."

Oddly enough, I can think of several examples of all of those groups right here on INGO, too.

 

[SSGSAD]

And I thought that 'Profiling' was not allowed... I guess we are 'diversifyed'.....

 

[rambone]

LOL at the comments:




58. Lisaa said... on May 27, 2010 at 06:51AM

Lets see, I've been mugged, (ran after those kids too) body checked, home invasion.. twice. I have never felt need for a gun. Ever.

Maybe it's because I'm from the Bronx originally, and I have lived in Philly (Germantown and then Queen Village) for 30 years.

Why don't they go live in suburbia and leave the city to real city people who can deal with the irritations of city life without having to pack heat.”

59. Al said... on May 27, 2010 at 08:22AM
“@Lisaa Maybe we should get rid of the cops and save a bunch on city taxes because since you didn't get hurt, it must mean NO ONE EVER gets hurt in mugging, body check, home invasions, etc... Yup, move to the suburb because there are no crimes there. Keep at that logic if it makes you happy.”

60. Anonymous said... on May 27, 2010 at 09:18AM
“Lisa enjoy being the victim for the rest of your life.... and keep calling it an irritation of city life. That makes your argument even weaker.”

 

[thej27]

LOL at the comments:




58. Lisaa said... on May 27, 2010 at 06:51AM

Lets see, I've been mugged, (ran after those kids too) body checked, home invasion.. twice. I have never felt need for a gun. Ever.

Maybe it's because I'm from the Bronx originally, and I have lived in Philly (Germantown and then Queen Village) for 30 years.

Why don't they go live in suburbia and leave the city to real city people who can deal with the irritations of city life without having to pack heat.”

59. Al said... on May 27, 2010 at 08:22AM
“@Lisaa Maybe we should get rid of the cops and save a bunch on city taxes because since you didn't get hurt, it must mean NO ONE EVER gets hurt in mugging, body check, home invasions, etc... Yup, move to the suburb because there are no crimes there. Keep at that logic if it makes you happy.”

60. Anonymous said... on May 27, 2010 at 09:18AM
“Lisa enjoy being the victim for the rest of your life.... and keep calling it an irritation of city life. That makes your argument even weaker.”

I guess murder would just be an irritation to Lisa too.

 

[ddenny5]

Why do we fall into smoking357's trap!