Half of US guns are owned by 3% of the public

[Yousaidwhat]

Yeah an on line survey of people stupid enough to opt in to a junk mail survey mailing list

And you think it's accurate?

I wouldn't be surprised if the survey was in fact accurate. Especially with all the goofball gun nuts they have around these days.

Even years before everybody went gun crazy I kept a few guns around. A shotgun for bird season. A high powered rifle for big game. A 22 rifle for target shooting, and a hand gun I strapped on while bird hunting.
I guess you could say that every gun I owned back than had a purpose. And that purpose was for hunting. Not killing people.

You don't know shit.

Every gun owner I know is either military, ex military, active police and retired or a civilian with experience and proficiency in the use of their firearms.

Not one is gun crazy. Not one fondles their firearms as professed on this board by the resident morons.

I've stated before that there are those who should not own or be in the vicinity of a firearm.

 

[Yousaidwhat]

From a leftwing site with opinions like these:

Comment, opinion and discussion from the Guardian US | The Guardian

Dismissed.

"The new survey, conducted in 2015 by public health researchers from Harvard and Northeastern universities"

Published by this Leftwing rag.

So?

Doesn't invalidate the survey........try again

in America, we do know that 30% are die hard liberals and will do whatever the liberal elites tell them to do. So most of them don't own guns, but will rely on the government to save them. Now the rest of the US citizens have a brain and know that if the liberals take away the 2nd amendment and disarm US, then the liberal by the force of the government will do like any other socialist country and this is to get rid of our rights and take over the country. This is why Obama , and all the rest of the retarded liberal elites talk about disarming US, yet the pushback is so intense the liberal back off. But Obama still has 3months left, and has at the UN, announced plans to get the constitution denounced and a Global Unification to replace it. At that time, all liberals will be declared ISIS sympathizers. Watch what you ask for liberals, because your not going to like it when the sleeping giant is awakened, as the Japanese found out.

that's baseless hackery. but thatnks for playing

now continue to bow down to the NRA.

Nobody is bowing to the NRA.

 

[PredFan]

Gun inequality: US study charts rise of hardcore super owners

Americans own an estimated 265m guns, more than one gun for every American adult, according to the most definitive portrait of US gun ownership in two decades. But the new survey estimates that 133m of these guns are concentrated in the hands of just 3% of American adults – a group of super-owners who have amassed an average of 17 guns each.

These are the gun owners who horde guns and ammunition to feel "safe"

And 50% of that 3% is me!

 

[Yousaidwhat]

From a leftwing site with opinions like these:

Comment, opinion and discussion from the Guardian US | The Guardian

Dismissed.

"The new survey, conducted in 2015 by public health researchers from Harvard and Northeastern universities"

Published by this Leftwing rag.

So?

Doesn't invalidate the survey........try again

in America, we do know that 30% are die hard liberals and will do whatever the liberal elites tell them to do. So most of them don't own guns, but will rely on the government to save them. Now the rest of the US citizens have a brain and know that if the liberals take away the 2nd amendment and disarm US, then the liberal by the force of the government will do like any other socialist country and this is to get rid of our rights and take over the country. This is why Obama , and all the rest of the retarded liberal elites talk about disarming US, yet the pushback is so intense the liberal back off. But Obama still has 3months left, and has at the UN, announced plans to get the constitution denounced and a Global Unification to replace it. At that time, all liberals will be declared ISIS sympathizers. Watch what you ask for liberals, because your not going to like it when the sleeping giant is awakened, as the Japanese found out.

that's baseless hackery. but thatnks for playing

now continue to bow down to the NRA.

Nobody is bowing to the NRA.

I wouldn't be surprised if the survey was in fact accurate. Especially with all the goofball gun nuts they have around these days.

Even years before everybody went gun crazy I kept a few guns around. A shotgun for bird season. A high powered rifle for big game. A 22 rifle for target shooting, and a hand gun I strapped on while bird hunting.
I guess you could say that every gun I owned back than had a purpose. And that purpose was for hunting. Not killing people.

OK

So you were one gun owner with 4 guns

Meets the profile of the OP

Years ago, yes. Today? Not so much.

Why did you get rid of your guns?

Why do you think he did?

Oh yeah everything on the internet is true

carry on

And even more true is the bazillions of buffoons like you with your endless bs assumptions.

Speaking of the buffoon with endless assumptions.

 

[rightwinger]

You do realize that Trumps complaint about Hillary's Secret Service protection does not help his cause

Secret Service is composed of firearms in the hands of highly trained and certified agents.

Is Trump proposing the same standard for the general public?

You are on to something there Rightwinger. You make a great argument for the federal government to start funding the NRA the same way they fund Planned Parenthood. The NRA promotes gun safety the same way Palnned Parenthood promotes safe abortions. Since you are clearly concerned about people owning guns not knowing how to safely handle them, it does follow that it would "promote the general welfare" if the federal government started funding gun safety training. And the NRA is very well positioned to provide the training. Once again, great idea on your part.

It should start in school. Right after learning about safe sex, kids learn about gun safety.

This is my rifle...this is my gun

Followed by marksmanship competitions.

Yeah, it is like a drug user. They first start off with weed, then move up to crack cocaine, then they move on to LSD or Heroin. Why do liberals allow such actions for druggies, but then legal gun owners, scare the shit of them? I would be more worried about the drug user, but maybe drug users like rightwinger, don't want us to have guns, so he can rob us blind for his funding of his drugs. Damn , now I figured why he is hell bent on knowing who has guns and who doesn't.

They start with slingshots and water pistols and then move up to bb guns
Before you know it, they are into .22s and experimenting with shotguns
Then they move up to the hard stuff Glocks and AR-15s

We got to stop them before it's too late

 

[westwall]

Gun inequality: US study charts rise of hardcore super owners

Americans own an estimated 265m guns, more than one gun for every American adult, according to the most definitive portrait of US gun ownership in two decades. But the new survey estimates that 133m of these guns are concentrated in the hands of just 3% of American adults – a group of super-owners who have amassed an average of 17 guns each.

These are the gun owners who horde guns and ammunition to feel "safe"

Shit. I have over a hundred of those damned things. Of course the vast majority are very old and highly collectible and don't ever get shot, but never let a doofus like ole rightwinger here resort to facts. They interfere with his propaganda...

 

[LuckyDuck]

The last figure of U.S. gun owners I "heard" about was between 75 and 80 million private citizens owning approximately 250+ million firearms.

 

[westwall]

The last figure of U.S. gun owners I "heard" about was between 75 and 80 million private citizens owning approximately 250+ million firearms.

The ATF reported that there were over 300 million guns in the hands of American citizens over two decades ago. Somehow I don't see that number dropping to what they claim now in light of all the guns that obummer has sold. Like everything else that this admin reports on, they lie through their teeth and morons like rightwinger lap it up.

 

[jillian]

"The new survey, conducted in 2015 by public health researchers from Harvard and Northeastern universities"

Published by this Leftwing rag.

So?

Doesn't invalidate the survey........try again

in America, we do know that 30% are die hard liberals and will do whatever the liberal elites tell them to do. So most of them don't own guns, but will rely on the government to save them. Now the rest of the US citizens have a brain and know that if the liberals take away the 2nd amendment and disarm US, then the liberal by the force of the government will do like any other socialist country and this is to get rid of our rights and take over the country. This is why Obama , and all the rest of the retarded liberal elites talk about disarming US, yet the pushback is so intense the liberal back off. But Obama still has 3months left, and has at the UN, announced plans to get the constitution denounced and a Global Unification to replace it. At that time, all liberals will be declared ISIS sympathizers. Watch what you ask for liberals, because your not going to like it when the sleeping giant is awakened, as the Japanese found out.

that's baseless hackery. but thatnks for playing

now continue to bow down to the NRA.

Nobody is bowing to the NRA.

OK

So you were one gun owner with 4 guns

Meets the profile of the OP

Years ago, yes. Today? Not so much.

Why did you get rid of your guns?

Why do you think he did?

Oh yeah everything on the internet is true

carry on

And even more true is the bazillions of buffoons like you with your endless bs assumptions.

Speaking of the buffoon with endless assumptions.

I respectfully disagree about the NRA. I think there are many on this board who think it is sacrosanct.

 

[westwall]

Published by this Leftwing rag.

So?

Doesn't invalidate the survey........try again

in America, we do know that 30% are die hard liberals and will do whatever the liberal elites tell them to do. So most of them don't own guns, but will rely on the government to save them. Now the rest of the US citizens have a brain and know that if the liberals take away the 2nd amendment and disarm US, then the liberal by the force of the government will do like any other socialist country and this is to get rid of our rights and take over the country. This is why Obama , and all the rest of the retarded liberal elites talk about disarming US, yet the pushback is so intense the liberal back off. But Obama still has 3months left, and has at the UN, announced plans to get the constitution denounced and a Global Unification to replace it. At that time, all liberals will be declared ISIS sympathizers. Watch what you ask for liberals, because your not going to like it when the sleeping giant is awakened, as the Japanese found out.

that's baseless hackery. but thatnks for playing

now continue to bow down to the NRA.

Nobody is bowing to the NRA.

Years ago, yes. Today? Not so much.

Why did you get rid of your guns?

Why do you think he did?

Oh yeah everything on the internet is true

carry on

And even more true is the bazillions of buffoons like you with your endless bs assumptions.

Speaking of the buffoon with endless assumptions.

I respectfully disagree about the NRA. I think there are many on this board who think it is sacrosanct.

No one I know thinks it is sacrosanct. Not one. That is a meme perpetrated by the progressives who wish to destroy any organization that fights for the rights of gun owners. No one in the NRA community wants bad people to get guns. Period. That too is a lie put forth by the propagandists. What the NRA wants to see is the laws already on the books....all 20,000 of them ENFORCED. Try enforcing those already on the books before you pass new ones.

This latest lie about the NRA not wanting terrorists to be disbarred from guns is a contemptible lie. The law specifically looked at those on the terrorist watch list. And lo and behold there are 72 members of the Dept of Homeland Security who are on the watchlist. So were at least two Congressmen. Once on the list it is notoriously difficult to get off of it (thanks to bureaucratic incompetence) so here is a case where the progressives had no problem denying the Constitutional Rights of innocent citizens of this country in the name of a law that would have had no measurable effect on bad guys getting guns anyway.

Face it jillian, the progressives have no problem violating the Constitution. You as an attorney should be concerned about that I would think.

 

[Blackrook]

Gun inequality: US study charts rise of hardcore super owners

Americans own an estimated 265m guns, more than one gun for every American adult, according to the most definitive portrait of US gun ownership in two decades. But the new survey estimates that 133m of these guns are concentrated in the hands of just 3% of American adults – a group of super-owners who have amassed an average of 17 guns each.

These are the gun owners who horde guns and ammunition to feel "safe"

People have a right to own as many firearms as they can afford, so this is a SHIT thread.

 

[theHawk]

Gun inequality: US study charts rise of hardcore super owners

Americans own an estimated 265m guns, more than one gun for every American adult, according to the most definitive portrait of US gun ownership in two decades. But the new survey estimates that 133m of these guns are concentrated in the hands of just 3% of American adults – a group of super-owners who have amassed an average of 17 guns each.

These are the gun owners who horde guns and ammunition to feel "safe"

Oh boy, better get after those 3 percenters.

By the way what does it matter how many a person owns? You can only use one or two at a time.

 

[rightwinger]

Gun inequality: US study charts rise of hardcore super owners

Americans own an estimated 265m guns, more than one gun for every American adult, according to the most definitive portrait of US gun ownership in two decades. But the new survey estimates that 133m of these guns are concentrated in the hands of just 3% of American adults – a group of super-owners who have amassed an average of 17 guns each.

These are the gun owners who horde guns and ammunition to feel "safe"

People have a right to own as many firearms as they can afford, so this is a SHIT thread.

Missed the point didn't you?
The point is that 300 million guns are in the hands of relatively few gun owners.

 

[westwall]

Gun inequality: US study charts rise of hardcore super owners

Americans own an estimated 265m guns, more than one gun for every American adult, according to the most definitive portrait of US gun ownership in two decades. But the new survey estimates that 133m of these guns are concentrated in the hands of just 3% of American adults – a group of super-owners who have amassed an average of 17 guns each.

These are the gun owners who horde guns and ammunition to feel "safe"

People have a right to own as many firearms as they can afford, so this is a SHIT thread.

Missed the point didn't you?
The point is that 300 million guns are in the hands of relatively few gun owners.

So what? How many cars does Jay Leno have compared to me? Guess what...who gives a shit....

 

[rightwinger]

Gun inequality: US study charts rise of hardcore super owners

Americans own an estimated 265m guns, more than one gun for every American adult, according to the most definitive portrait of US gun ownership in two decades. But the new survey estimates that 133m of these guns are concentrated in the hands of just 3% of American adults – a group of super-owners who have amassed an average of 17 guns each.

These are the gun owners who horde guns and ammunition to feel "safe"

Oh boy, better get after those 3 percenters.

By the way what does it matter how many a person owns? You can only use one or two at a time.

Absolutely right

We do not have a large percentage of the population owning guns. We have a small percentage owning many guns

 

[westwall]

Gun inequality: US study charts rise of hardcore super owners

Americans own an estimated 265m guns, more than one gun for every American adult, according to the most definitive portrait of US gun ownership in two decades. But the new survey estimates that 133m of these guns are concentrated in the hands of just 3% of American adults – a group of super-owners who have amassed an average of 17 guns each.

These are the gun owners who horde guns and ammunition to feel "safe"

Oh boy, better get after those 3 percenters.

By the way what does it matter how many a person owns? You can only use one or two at a time.

Absolutely right

We do not have a large percentage of the population owning guns. We have a small percentage owning many guns

Factually incorrect. There are at least 80 million gun owners in the USA. At least. Your propaganda, like usual, is shit.

 

[IsaacNewton]

Gun inequality: US study charts rise of hardcore super owners

Americans own an estimated 265m guns, more than one gun for every American adult, according to the most definitive portrait of US gun ownership in two decades. But the new survey estimates that 133m of these guns are concentrated in the hands of just 3% of American adults – a group of super-owners who have amassed an average of 17 guns each.

These are the gun owners who horde guns and ammunition to feel "safe"

I'm betting Isis doesn't own 1 million guns and this 3% are terrified of Isis, who are 8,000 miles away.

One caveat, I could see someone owning multiple firearms of a collection of old guns and rifles. Old flintlocks etc, but many of these people need to 'feel' safe by owning many modern weapons as the article says. It is an affliction. It is the same affliction someone like Kim Jong Un has but only on a smaller scale.

 

[westwall]

Gun inequality: US study charts rise of hardcore super owners

Americans own an estimated 265m guns, more than one gun for every American adult, according to the most definitive portrait of US gun ownership in two decades. But the new survey estimates that 133m of these guns are concentrated in the hands of just 3% of American adults – a group of super-owners who have amassed an average of 17 guns each.

These are the gun owners who horde guns and ammunition to feel "safe"

I'm betting Isis doesn't own 1 million guns and this 3% are terrified of Isis, who are 8,000 miles away.

One caveat, I could see someone owning multiple firearms of a collection of old guns and rifles. Old flintlocks etc, but many of these people need to 'feel' safe by owning many modern weapons as the article says. It is an affliction. It is the same affliction someone like Kim Jong Un has but only on a smaller scale.

Care to bet? ISIS has a budget of over 500 million per year to buy whatever the hell they want. They have everything you could hope to have from small arms all the way up to optically guided anti tank missiles.

 

[IsaacNewton]

Gun inequality: US study charts rise of hardcore super owners

Americans own an estimated 265m guns, more than one gun for every American adult, according to the most definitive portrait of US gun ownership in two decades. But the new survey estimates that 133m of these guns are concentrated in the hands of just 3% of American adults – a group of super-owners who have amassed an average of 17 guns each.

These are the gun owners who horde guns and ammunition to feel "safe"

I'm betting Isis doesn't own 1 million guns and this 3% are terrified of Isis, who are 8,000 miles away.

One caveat, I could see someone owning multiple firearms of a collection of old guns and rifles. Old flintlocks etc, but many of these people need to 'feel' safe by owning many modern weapons as the article says. It is an affliction. It is the same affliction someone like Kim Jong Un has but only on a smaller scale.

Care to bet? ISIS has a budget of over 500 million per year to buy whatever the hell they want. They have everything you could hope to have from small arms all the way up to optically guided anti tank missiles.

They have 20,000 fighters, maybe. Yes I'm sure they buy ten rifles for every fighter because they love to waste money. Come now, don't defend the indefensible. Even if they did buy ten rifles for every fighter that would be 200,000.

 

[2aguy]

And the fundemental tenet of the anti gunners is a lie.....more guns does not equal more crime...

200 million guns in private hands in the 1990s......357 million guns in 2016....and the gun murder rate went down 49%.

There are many well known exceptions to your claim.

No.....those are the facts....200 million in the 1990s.....357 million in 2016...and the gun murder rate went down 49% and the violent crime rate also went down, in general.....fact.

You couldn't be more wrong. The violent crime rate went down because than president Clinton put a shitload of cops on the streets who in turn locked up and or shot & killed the bad guys in sufficient numbers that brought about the reduction in crime.

Just saying

Wrong......but it doesn't matter for the point asswipe.......

The primary belief, the motivating belief of the anti gun movement is that if more law abiding Americans have guns and carry them, there will be more violent crime and murder...

And that is wrong........that is a lie.....it is not backed up by any statistic or fact....the basic premise of the anti gun movement is not true.....

The actual fact that there were 200 million guns in private hands in the 1990s and about 1.2 million concealed carriers...and that there are now 357 million guns in private hands and 14.5 million concealed carriers.......and the gun murder rate dropped 49%......and the violent crime rate dropped......shows that nothing the anti gunners believe is true..........

And actual research shows that more armed people lowers the crime rate.....

Locking up violent criminals is the best way to do it...but arming law abiding people also helps.....actual research shows this......

And of course I and other 2nd Amendment supporters support long prison sentences for actual gun criminals.....too bad the democrats and the anti gunners do not....

Your beliefs have nothing to do with the reduction in crime that was brought about as a result of the Clinton administration flooding our streets with cops.

Another lie......Clinton did not flood the streets with cops..his program was a failure......stricter sentences and the advent of 3 strikes your out did...and allowing normal people to carry guns...