Thread: New gun control: Shut down shops
View Single Post
Old 06-28-2007, 08:30 AM   #28
Flint
Snowflake
 
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Dystopia
Posts: 13,136
Quote:
...as recently as 15 or 20 years ago, there were 250,000 licensed gun dealers in the United States. ...Today...there are 108,381...
Quote:
Originally Posted by redstradingpost
... Here are your stats: The number of dealers from 1994-2005 decreased nearly 80%. ...
Those numbers don't match up. Over "15 or 20 years" the number dropped about 57%, but in 11 of those years, the number dropped almost 80%? Did the number actually increase around 20% in the first 4 to 9 years of the "15 to 20 years" and then drop sharply? Can I see a graph?


Quote:
Originally Posted by redstradingpost
...so do you think that were just making it up?
Making WHAT up? Be specific.
__________________
******************
There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there
it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your
expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever
gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio
Flint is offline   Reply With Quote