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Surprise: Gun ownership rises to 44% of all homes

Join a militia, then you can be legal, organised, and fearful.

Done, formed our own and well regulated. Says Free People, meaning not restricted to militias. Those that own guns are not more fearful, just better prepared, seems it is the banners that are full of fear, and an irrational fear at that.
 
Says the fearful brit that lives under the skirt of the nanny state. If your country was any more pathetic you'd all be reduced to using plastic silverware. :lamo

Silverware? Nope only plastic spoons, the rest are far too sharp, could but and eye out with them, oh wait a spoon can be made into a weaon, ok everyone eats with their fingers, oh wait ......................
 
Welcome to all the new guns owners across the country.
A couple of things to think about as a new responsible gun owner.

Make sure you a very familiar with Gun Safety and practices.
Follow them 100% every time you touch a gun!

Know your state laws regarding the use of a weapon in your self-defense.

Always be a good and responsible gun owner.
 
Yeah... no. This Pew poll doesn't say what the pro-gunners think it says.

They weren't conducting a poll on gun ownership rates.They were polling for opinions about guns, and the pro-gun press are misinterpreting the number of guns owned by people in the survey, with a claim about gun ownership rates for the public as a whole.

There are several different national polls on gun ownership rates. CBS/NYT shows constant drops, now at 36%; Gallup had 43% last October, also a drop from the 70s; GSS also showed declines since the 1970s, and is done on even years, and isn't published yet for 2016. (Pew's own writeups on gun ownership discuss both Gallup and GSS.)

Pew has done its own polling on gun ownership, but I don't see anything more recent than 2013, and closely followed GSS figures anyway. If their surveys showed a 10% increase in household gun ownership in the past 3 years, that would be front-page news. Pew is non-partisan, and has no interest in burying the lede like that.

Meanwhile, Pew's poll does very high support for universal background checks, creating a federal database to track gun sales, and barring purchases by people on the federal no-fly list. I wonder why those findings are getting ignored by the pro-gun press...?

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Why would they count gun owners from the year before? That's not how polls work.

Because people generally own guns a lot longer than one year. This poll has a dishonest method to count people as non-gun owners who previously identified as gun owners, who did not respond every year to these pollsters. Instead of taking the none respondent out of the poll totally they were assumed to be none-gun owners.
 
The other 5% responded, "Mind your own damn business!"

:)

No, none of the people with a gun in their home where it's illegal to have a gun in the home answered that they had a gun. None of the people with a gun in their home that was illegal because they got the gun in a burglary admitted to having a gun.

If someone called me and asked if I had a gun in my home I wouldn't tell them whether I did or I didn't.
 
It always boggles my mind that gun control/banning people like to equate gun owners with living in fear and having small penises. IDK why they think their case will be helped by insulting people or not trying to gain an understanding of most gun owners where neither fear or compensating from a small penis has anything whatsoever to do with owning guns.
 
44% of American households own half the guns on the planet. Impressive. What ARE they afraid of?

why do you think that most people who own guns are afraid of something

its obvious gun banners are afraid of guns or they wouldn't be gun banners
 
It always boggles my mind that gun control/banning people like to equate gun owners with living in fear and having small penises. IDK why they think their case will be helped by insulting people or not trying to gain an understanding of most gun owners where neither fear or compensating from a small penis has anything whatsoever to do with owning guns.

gun banners are invariably dishonest as to what motivates their hatred. They pretend they are trying to increase public safety and decrease violent crime when in reality, their main issue is that they like to use gun control as a facade to pretend they are tough on crime without actually wanting to hurt criminals. and the gun banners almost always are left wing voters who despise the fact that the NRA and many gun owners vote against the Democrat party
 
Yeah... no. This Pew poll doesn't say what the pro-gunners think it says.

They weren't conducting a poll on gun ownership rates.They were polling for opinions about guns, and the pro-gun press are misinterpreting the number of guns owned by people in the survey, with a claim about gun ownership rates for the public as a whole.

There are several different national polls on gun ownership rates. CBS/NYT shows constant drops, now at 36%; Gallup had 43% last October, also a drop from the 70s; GSS also showed declines since the 1970s, and is done on even years, and isn't published yet for 2016. (Pew's own writeups on gun ownership discuss both Gallup and GSS.)

Pew has done its own polling on gun ownership, but I don't see anything more recent than 2013, and closely followed GSS figures anyway. If their surveys showed a 10% increase in household gun ownership in the past 3 years, that would be front-page news. Pew is non-partisan, and has no interest in burying the lede like that.

Meanwhile, Pew's poll does very high support for universal background checks, creating a federal database to track gun sales, and barring purchases by people on the federal no-fly list. I wonder why those findings are getting ignored by the pro-gun press...?

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what exactly is the pro gun press?
 
It always boggles my mind that gun control/banning people like to equate gun owners with living in fear and having small penises. IDK why they think their case will be helped by insulting people or not trying to gain an understanding of most gun owners where neither fear or compensating from a small penis has anything whatsoever to do with owning guns.

It's because liberals are incapable of comprehending or dealing with things they don't agree with. Take "Homophobia" or "Islamaphobia" they can't deal with the fact that people HATE Homosexuals or Muslims. So to deal with that reality they have to reduce it to a fear. Now the person that offends them is a victim too, they are just fearful.
 
Yeah... no. This Pew poll doesn't say what the pro-gunners think it says.

They weren't conducting a poll on gun ownership rates.They were polling for opinions about guns, and the pro-gun press are misinterpreting the number of guns owned by people in the survey, with a claim about gun ownership rates for the public as a whole.

There are several different national polls on gun ownership rates. CBS/NYT shows constant drops, now at 36%; Gallup had 43% last October, also a drop from the 70s; GSS also showed declines since the 1970s, and is done on even years, and isn't published yet for 2016. (Pew's own writeups on gun ownership discuss both Gallup and GSS.)

Pew has done its own polling on gun ownership, but I don't see anything more recent than 2013, and closely followed GSS figures anyway. If their surveys showed a 10% increase in household gun ownership in the past 3 years, that would be front-page news. Pew is non-partisan, and has no interest in burying the lede like that.

Meanwhile, Pew's poll does very high support for universal background checks, creating a federal database to track gun sales, and barring purchases by people on the federal no-fly list. I wonder why those findings are getting ignored by the pro-gun press...?

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The problem is that many of those that answered the poll do not know what they are actually talking about, the No Fly list tells one all one needs know about their knowledge of the issues asked. ANYONE can end up on a no-fly list for absolutely no valid reasons, hence the list is worthless as to identifying people that might be a threat.
Too bad there was nothing more recent, people change due to the changing world we live in.
 
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