Gun Control & RKBA

gejohnston

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9. According to WaPo,

Reply to workinclasszero (Original post)

Mon Sep 19, 2016, 04:32 PM

Sep 2016

our gun ownership rate is lower than Norway, Canada, Finland, Switzerland, and maybe Iceland. We are more on par with New Zealand, France, Sweden, and Germany. My favorite comment

sp60
1:34 PM EDT [Edited]
What absolute BS.

Pew just did their yearly study showing either 46 or 48% of households have firearms... Even the 'low' was 44% if I remember correctly.

This sounds like one of those studies where they purposely set out to 'prove' a point, and didn't accept any data that wasn't going their way.

That fact that they based their entire study on the assumption that there are fewer gun owners than in the past shows exactly what they were out to prove.

And since this 'study' was obviously commissioned for Bloomberg's gun control media site "The Trace" it's pretty obvious what the intent was.

This will never be published, it's click-bait for the gun control lobby and would never come close to passing peer-review in a real scientific journal.

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Just three percent of adults own half of America’s guns [View all] workinclasszero Sep 2016 OP

I guess you can count me in the 19%. NaturalHigh Sep 2016 #1

Oh, just wait a bit. The next study will show 88% of "adults" own no guns. Eleanors38 Sep 2016 #2

If Bloomberg funds that one too, you may be estimating low at 88% DonP Sep 2016 #10

Heh! "127%" reminds me of the biologist who studied feral hog birthing mortality rates... Eleanors38 Sep 2016 #13

A jump of 400,000 new FOID cards in Illinois in just 2 years .... DonP Sep 2016 #14

0% of the 3% comitted no crimes. JonathanRackham Sep 2016 #3

I' would wager that the Bundys are part of that 3% Buzz cook Sep 2016 #16

... JonathanRackham Sep 2016 #17

And of course this survey sarisataka Sep 2016 #4

How sad is that, we need to get that first number into the 50's. ileus Sep 2016 #5

Of the 620,000,000 firearms in private hands worldwide... discntnt_irny_srcsm Sep 2016 #6

Speaking of multiple firearms, I am convinced that an improved cylinder bore... Eleanors38 Sep 2016 #7

This statistic has more than one meaning Runningdawg Sep 2016 #8

According to WaPo, gejohnston Sep 2016 #9

9.57 Million is a load of people...even owning 17+ guns each. jmg257 Sep 2016 #11

Obama won the 2012 election sarisataka Sep 2016 #12

probaby not a valid study, not even worth mentioning gejohnston Sep 2016 #15

Do stolen guns count as owned kudzu22 Sep 2016 #18