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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) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday September 20 2016, @06:08PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Tuesday September 20 2016, @06:08PM (#404374) Journal

    I wouldn't call watching a bunch of twerking videos a "survey", but, whatever floats yer boat!

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20 2016, @07:06PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20 2016, @07:06PM (#404417)

    According to my survey of soylent news comments, 50% of commentors don't know what a survey is.

  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday September 20 2016, @08:49PM

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Tuesday September 20 2016, @08:49PM (#404469) Homepage
    > I wouldn't call watching a bunch of twerking videos a "survey"

    I don't know, but my theodolite was at ninety degrees, I can tell you.
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  • (Score: 2) by Fnord666 on Wednesday September 21 2016, @12:19AM

    by Fnord666 (652) on Wednesday September 21 2016, @12:19AM (#404580) Homepage

    I wouldn't call watching a bunch of twerking videos a "survey", but, whatever floats yer boat!

    Maybe not, but it's probably just as valid a statistical sample as the one used by the study. It was an online survey for $deity's sake!