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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, Flamebait) by FatPhil on Tuesday September 20 2016, @09:09PM

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Tuesday September 20 2016, @09:09PM (#404483) Homepage
    > Everyone should have a couple weapons in their home. It does discourage criminals from trying to victimize you.

    Clearly a superior solution to encouraging a society where only the tiniest fraction of the population, a fraction so small you're never likely to actually meet one, is a criminal.

    You still haven't evolved beyond the wild west. That quoted paragraph says little more than "I am paranoid" or "I am scared" - take your pick.

    And since when was it "a couple weapons"? In English it was, is, and hopefully always will be "a couple of weapons". Even those in Compton know that the "of" survives as a trailing "-a".
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 21 2016, @04:04AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 21 2016, @04:04AM (#404645)

    I've met criminals. Quite a few, in fact.

    A couple tried to rip me off - in fact, I met some of them face to face in court.

    But sure, call me paranoid. Or scared. Or both. I'll pencil in some time to care what you think.