February 16, 2018--The Other 3%

Not the economic elite who own a vastly disproportionate percentage of America's wealth but the 3% of Americans who own 80% of the assault weapons in private hands.

The New York Times reports it is much easier in Florida to purchase an AR-15 military style weapon than a handgun. It takes three days of background checking before one can take a pistol home but you can walk into a gun shop and an hour later leave with a semiautomatic rifle. 

In Florida you have to be 21 to buy a handgun but only 18 to purchase an AR-15.

Rona asked why it is places such as Florida, Colorado, Connecticut, Texas, and Nevada where it is easy to purchase weapons of mass destruction while it is difficult if not impossible to do so legally in places such as New York that the worst shootings always seem to occur in those states where guns are easy to obtain whereas in New York this virtually never happens.

The answer to that is easy and self-explanatory.