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Gun ownership seems to be in the high 40% range according to Gallup data. http://themonkeycage.org/blog/2012/07/21/the-declining-culture-of-guns-and-violence-i
by omni 14y ago
Gun ownership seems to be in the high 40% range according to Gallup data.
http://themonkeycage.org/blog/2012/07/21/the-declining-culture-of-guns-and-violence-in-the-united-states/ http://themonkeycage.org/blog/2012/07/21/the-declining-cultu...
- Turing_Machine 14y ago"People willing to tell a stranger on the phone that they own a gun" is not the same group as "people who actually own a gun". At all.
- refurb 14y agoExactly, I would assume it's probably higher than 40%. There are an estimated 270M civilian-owned guns and 132M households in the US. So basically 2 guns per household. If you estimate gun ownership at 50%, that's 4 guns per gun-owning household.
- Turing_Machine 14y agoMy gut feeling (and that's all it is -- which makes it just about as accurate as the Gallup data) is that it's closer to 70% than 40%.
- mindcrime 14y agoI've seen the number for "civilian owned guns" reported as being much higher, more like 310M. Not sure which number is most accurate, and it's entirely possible that none of them are, since we have no central firearms registry. But I would guess that the actual percentage of homes with at least one gun is higher than 40%.