Define 'normal'. Who even knows what that means anymore?
Read or watch the news- a huge number of people want guns banned. I'm not going to search through all of your posts, but you have mentioned the Australian ban at least once (on pg 8).
Hoarding guns is for the paranoid and they do not make up 20% of the population. The rest may have one or two and they aren't trying to fight off the government, nor do they think the government will be raiding homes for guns. Some gun owners don't care about them, but may be keeping them because they were inherited, others may buy because of investment value. Stats can tell a lot of stories, but someone should talk to non-NRA people to get their take on things before reaching their conclusions. I know people who are gung-ho and in fact, I would like to see the guns taken from some of them. One guy has a huge problem with anger management, one wears his serving platter-sized belt buckle with "The Right To Bear Arms" cast into it, but he couldn't quote the whole Amendment if he, well, had a gun to his head. Another is a neighbor who has been allowed to keep some guns, but recently lost his CCP because he had a pistol with him when he killed the light pole across the street from my house with his pickup truck. I listened to the Police radio app while they were outside and a comment about his CCP was made and he was in cuffs after the field sobriety test. I heard another call about him- the Police were called because he was drunk & suicidal, making threats with a gun. Apparently, it's OK to do that in the comfort of ones' own home. I don't want him to have ANY guns. For that matter, I'd like him to move out of the neighborhood.
I made a comment before, which was made more accurate- "fear is an effective way of controlling people" and when people are afraid of something, they react. People are reactive- there's no getting around that fact and it would be good if we weren't, but changing it is a tall order.
