2aguy
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- Jul 19, 2014
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In 1973 47% of households had a gun, and 48% of people carried guns. In 2014 those numbers were 31% and 32%. And YOU can't dispute THAT!The percentage of Americans carrying guns has greatly decreased. Your stat is stupid, as it will always be parallel with our total population.The percent of households with guns in this country has severely gone down over the last several decades. But I suppose we could just ignore that.No racist pig, I am pointing out that making a law that targets normal gun owners, and takes their guns and does nothing to stop criminals is stupid.
The best way to stop gun criminals...arrest them when they break the law, and arrest felons when they are caught with illegal guns.....and lock them up a long time.
Normal gun owners are not using guns to commit crimes, yet those are the only people you care about when it comes to guns...so our gun crime rate isn't dealt with....
And again...as more normal Americans own and carry guns....our gun crime rate and our gun murder rate has gone down, not up...
Wrong....there are more guns in more hands in America than ever before..........you should stop paying attention to anti gun propaganda......I know where you got that idea, and it has been disproven over and over again. The General Social Survey is led by an anti gunner....and other surveys dispute it's findings.....
There are now 13 million Americans carrying guns for self defense...and our gun crime rate has gone down, our gun murder rate has gone down......how is that possible?
Wrong again......in 2013 there were 11.1 million people carrying guns for self defense, now there are 13 million people carrying with the growing sectors women and minoritites......
You can't dispute the stat but calling it stupid seems to work for you....see...whenever a lefty, ant gun nutjob like you looses a debate you resort to being a child.....good for you.....I know you can't help it...your brain lacks the ability to process the truth, facts and reality...as well as the difference between right and wrong and good and evil...you can't help it...you were born that way...
And you are wrong again...
Is gun ownership really down in America? | Fox News
Surely, gun control advocates such as GSS director Tom Smith view this decline as a good thing. In a 2003 book of mine, I quoted Smith as saying that the large drop in gun ownership would “make it easier for politicians to do the right thing on guns” and pass more restrictive regulations.
Other gun control advocates have mentioned to me that they hope that if people believe fewer people own guns, that may cause others to rethink their decision to own one themselves. It is part of the reason they dramatically exaggerate the risks of having guns in the home.
The Associated Press and Time ignored other polls by Gallup and ABC News/Washington Post.
These polls show that gun ownership rates have been flat over the same period. According to Gallup, household gun ownership has ranged from 51 percent in 1994 to 34 percent in 1999. In 2014, it was at 42 percent – comparable to the 43-45 percent figures during the 1970s.
A 2011 Gallup poll with the headline “Self-Reported Gun Ownership in U.S. Is Highest Since 1993” appears to have gotten no news coverage.
The ABC News/Washington Post poll shows an even more stable pattern, with household gun ownership between 44 and 46 percent in 1999. In 2013, the ownership rate was 43 percent.
There are other measures that suggest that we should be very careful of relying too heavily on polling to gauge the level of gun ownership. For example, the nationally number of concealed handgun permits has soared over the last decade: rising from about 2.7 million in 1999 to 4.6 million in 2007 to 11.1 million in 2014.
The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) shows that the number of gun purchases has grown dramatically over time –doubling from 2006 to 2014.