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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dennishoddy" data-source="post: 1888912" data-attributes="member: 5412">I think there are times in history when the popularity of gun ownership has waxed, and waned. It seems to me that most of the time we get a backlash from mass shootings. It lasts for a few years, and then something happens, and it starts all over again. I remember watching the Austin Tx tower shooter shooting live on TV. The police were almost defensless shooting back with revolvers, while he picked folks off with centerfire rifles. Eventually sportsmen came forward with their deer rifles that were loaned to the officers on the scene, as well as returning fire themselves in support of the police! Not too long afterward, you had to show ID, had age limits, etc to buy ammunition. TG&Y etc had spiral notebooks that they kept the info in.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whitman" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whitman</a>Then came the Kent State Massacre. It was a tough time to be in the military, and/or be a gun owner during that era. Like the OP's buddy, you had them, but didn't talk about them.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings</a></blockquote>