From The Washington Post:
The survey's findings support other research showing that as overall rates of gun ownership has declined, the number of firearms in circulation has skyrocketed. The implication is that there are more guns in fewer hands than ever before. The top 3 percent of American adults own, on average, 17 guns apiece, according to the survey's estimates.
Interesting. Lawyers, guns, and money! Which of these has the smallest percentage and largest absolute amount? Of course, the other major shift the survey reveals is in the rationale for owning firearms: currently, a majority of owners cite personal protection as their motivation, prior to the 1990's the majority owned guns for sport.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20 2016, @04:27PM
Who said anything about it being a threat? Violent death rate is way down [nationalreview.com] over the last 20 years, so obviously more guns aren't causing more deaths, at least not at the macro level.
But, as you said you can't use more than one at a time, so what is going on? Is it fetishization? Since the violent death rate is way down (and the violent crime rate is down even more), what are they afraid of that they weren't afraid of when the country was like 300% more dangerous?