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I SEE THIS AS A POSITIVE: ?A rifle behind every blade of grass.? However, this statement ? ?In ju?

By Glenn Reynolds

I SEE THIS AS A POSITIVE: “A rifle behind every blade of grass.” However, this statement — “In just 3 months Americans bought enough guns to outfit the entire Chinese and Indian armies combined” — doesn’t seem quite true. At least, the claim is that in three months Americans legally bought 3,177,256 guns, but according to this, the combined size of the Chinese and Indian armies is 3,575,000. On the other hand, this article gives China’s army size as considerably smaller. And it’s undoubtedly true that the owners of these guns are at least as knowledgeable in their care and use as the average member of the Indian or Chinese army. Anyway, to paraphrase Bogart, there are some sections of the United States I would advise you not to invade — and that would be, basically, all of them.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on April 29, 2009 (boomark / email).