This is my rifle, this is my gun. One is for fighting, the other for fun.
Gun owners are happier than the average?
In 1996, gun owners spent about 15% less of their time than nonowners feeling "outraged at something somebody had done." It's easy enough in certain precincts to caricature armed Americans as an angry and miserable fringe group. But it just isn't true. The data say that the people in the approximately 40 million American households with guns are generally happier than those people in households that don't have guns.
The casual hunter has good reason to be happier than most. They have a hobby they enjoy, and it they spend a minimum of 2-3 days each year outdoors pursuing that hobby, communing with God's creatures (and then blasting them into oblivion...).
However, I've seen too much inate unhappiness with the current state of Second Amendment politics amongst the people at my local range to think that there's not an angry underbelly to all the happy gun owners out there. There is a core group of gun owners who are rather upset about the current state of the Second Amendment. Any law restricting gun ownership in any way is too much for them. Me? I'm ok with some reasonable restrictions. Free speech doesn't cover yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater, and the Second Amendment doesn't mean I can own my own M-61A Vulcan gatling gun (A pity...). Because those groups is very vocal and very visible, however, they tend to become the most-noticed of all gun owners, and therefore they become the face of the gun owners overall.
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