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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 aristarchus on Tuesday September 20 2016, @08:10PM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Tuesday September 20 2016, @08:10PM (#404448) Journal

    So They have 4000 people who are paid to take surveys. How representative of the total American population can they be?

    Well, that would be statistically representative, if it were a properly selected unbiased sample of the whole population. Are you one of the 50% of Soylentils who do not understand statistics?

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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday September 20 2016, @08:53PM

    by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Tuesday September 20 2016, @08:53PM (#404474) Homepage
    And are you one of the ones who does not understand the words "would" and "if", or are you just being deliberately oblique?
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    • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday September 20 2016, @09:05PM

      by aristarchus (2645) on Tuesday September 20 2016, @09:05PM (#404478) Journal

      I was going for obliquely deliberate, but evidently I failed.

      • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday September 20 2016, @09:28PM

        by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Tuesday September 20 2016, @09:28PM (#404501) Homepage
        In a plain text medium, it definitely helps if you lay it on *really* thick(ly).
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