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Three Percent own Half of America’s Guns

posted by martyb on Tuesday September 20 2016, @02:39PM   Printer-friendly
from the taking-aim-at-statistics dept.

aristarchus writes:

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.

Washington Post

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.

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  • (Score: 2, Touché) by slap on Tuesday September 20 2016, @05:51PM

    by slap (5764) on Tuesday September 20 2016, @05:51PM (#404362)

    I can see it now. We have "Obama Phones" for the poor. Why not "Obama Guns", too?

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by edIII on Tuesday September 20 2016, @10:19PM

    by edIII (791) on Tuesday September 20 2016, @10:19PM (#404518)

    Almost here. The fears about 3D maker guns are real. I'm not too worried about the state trying to take away my guns when technology is making it possible for me to construct my own weapons. Good luck trying to remove those when it will be more like demolishing an entire wall setup to recreate that scene from Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark :)

    In the future getting rid of guns will simply be impossible unless we also highly, highly, restrict all technology that makes it easy to produce complex parts at home. I doubt that will happen, and only one person needs to construct a gun "factory" to arm hundreds of people. 1000 poor people come together, and weapons are no longer impossible to make.

    Trump actually gets that, which is why he wants to destroy due process and freedom of expression. He wishes to make it illegal to possess or distribute knowledge of how to make things. We let him get his way, and chemistry itself is going to become a national security protected field where you will require a top secret clearance of some type before you can gain access to what used to be high school chemistry knowledge.

    Possessing the Anarchist's Cookbook will be a crime in this new Fahrenheit 451 future :)

    Guns? Frozen Grapefruit Launcher. I could take out entire squad cars of police officers with $30 bucks of fruit from Costco, a couple of muffler pipes, and some time with a few welding tools. The trick... you accelerate any matter fast enough and it can destroy pretty much any other piece of matter. Generally speaking ;)

    It's all stupid anyways. Violence will start to disappear proportional to the increase in our collective prosperity. "Obama guns" should only worry you because that group of people are the most disenfranchised, disillusioned, and desperate people in America. Don't ban guns; Pay Living Wages.

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