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New Survey: Gun Ownership Lower and More Concentrated

TurtleDude said:
that is an interesting comment coming from someone who has claimed that Semi auto rifles are weapons of war and the only -I REPEAT ONLY-use for a 10 round+ magazine is for WARFARE.

and yes, there are lots of people-some in the government, who jizz themselves thinking about jackbooted thugs breaking down doors and confiscating weapons and shooting anyone who resists. The ATF and the Democrat party are full of such people.
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I wonder if jet has ever even held a gun.
 
American said:
I wonder if jet has ever even held a gun.
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I am sure he has

remember

this is my rifle

this is my gun

one is for fighting

One is for fun?

I believe he actually owns a firearm. his posts demonstrate he's mad with the gun banners running his state and he wants every other gun owner to live under the same stupid laws he does.
 
TurtleDude said:
I am sure he has

remember

this is my rifle

this is my gun

one is for fighting

One is for fun?

I believe he actually owns a firearm. his posts demonstrate he's mad with the gun banners running his state and he wants every other gun owner to live under the same stupid laws he does.
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Okay, if you say so.
 
TurtleDude said:
I am sure he has

remember

this is my rifle

this is my gun

one is for fighting

One is for fun?

I believe he actually owns a firearm. his posts demonstrate he's mad with the gun banners running his state and he wants every other gun owner to live under the same stupid laws he does.
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In that case it is a pity he does not work harder to build some winning ways into firearm owners so they don't suffer the same fate.

Anyone can lose a fight. Only those with enough intelligence can win when things are stacked against that win by your own lack of ability and experience.
 
Harry Guerrilla said:
Just a personal nit pick.
A super gun owner has 8 guns?

That doesn't sound like a "super gun owner" to me.
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Hell no, it's a novice gun owner.

Rico Suave said:
Gun ownership is becoming less and less acceptable in America. Good news!
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Total BS.

blackjack50 said:
I call bull****:

Did they poll all gun owners? How many? Where did they get the numbers on who does and doesn't own a gun? I can tell you right now that I personally own more guns than any survey or government report could produce without me self reporting.

This is all propaganda for anti gun dip****s who want other people to join their "team."
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Sure is propaganda and the dweebs lick it up. Pathetic.
 
Visbek said:
They asked people to anonymously participate in a survey. Making it meaningless!

The people who are not willing to participate in surveys are not going to participate. The people who did were apparently willing to discuss it, and not paranoid about it.
Speculation!



There is no propaganda, there are no teams.
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Yes it is ....................and yes there are. All the gun control groups put out lies and propaganda daily....and they have teams. (operatives)
 
TheGoverness said:
When I think "Super Gun Owner", I think of someone that owns a bunch of illegal weaponry.
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Why? Why not a person who just likes all kinds of guns?

Harry Guerrilla said:
I've known a few I'd call super gun owners.
They had much more than a couple of dozen though.

There are very legitimate reasons for owning more than 8 firearms though.
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I know folks with hundreds of guns....and tens of thousands of rounds of ammo.

Crimefree said:
That is a criminal gun owner is it not?
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By jove....you are correct!
 
Visbek said:
It's a survey done by academics. It's not propaganda.



Again, no one operates polls that way. No one. Your demand is unreasonable.



Studies like this do typically report the demographic makeup of the respondents. With something like this, they will almost certainly try to get a representative sample of the nation as a whole.



Yes.



I participate in surveys.



Yes, they do. What they do is contact people across the United States, put together a representative sample of the nation as a whole, and ask them.



Yes, it does



Yes, it does



Yes, it does



It's a survey. They are basically asking people "do you own a gun? If so, how many? Does someone else in your home own a gun?" So yes, they do account for the variety of ways people wind up owning guns.



Irrelevant



Also irrelevant



The survey is fine. The problem is that you don't like its results.



Except it isn't. Polls are not perfect, but they are getting better, as we figure out ways to improve response rates.

We should also note that in the absence of polls, you basically have absolutely no data to prove otherwise. E.g. if you happen to live in a rural county in Texas, chances are that most of your neighbors own multiple guns, and it's perfectly normal. Inferring that "gun ownership must be high" is deeply flawed, because you don't have access to a representative sample, and can easily ignore how gun ownership rates are very low in cities like Boston or San Francisco.

I.e. if you toss out all surveys, then you basically have nothing to go on, no way to make any claims, no way to counter it. Sounds like a Pyrrhic victory to me.
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The results are highly flawed.
People who waste their time participating in surveys.... are fools.

People who think this survey is accurate, are in the Tinker Bell world of make believe!
 
matchlight said:
The distribution of firearms among private citizens in the U.S. may be an interesting statistic, but it's irrelevant to the right of Americans to keep and bear arms. If all the firearms involved were in the hands of only a thousand people, all the remaining tens of millions who now had none would have just the same right to acquire their own whenever they chose to.
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Yes they would.

Visbek said:
I didn't say it was.

I'm simply pointing out survey data about current gun owners and trends.
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Not really, since it's flawed from the get go, it points out how stupid anti-gun liberals are. ;)
The survey is total crap!

TurtleDude said:
there are far more gun owners than gays, and far more gun owners than blacks, and far more gun owners than women aborting pregnancies and yet I suspect almost all the gun banners won't dismiss the rights of gays, blacks and women seeking abortions based on the numbers of those groups
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Too logical for liberal minds! :lamo
 
iguanaman said:
Sadly gun deaths exceeded auto fatalities in 14 States in 2011 and while automobile deaths are trending down, gun deaths are increasing yearly. Our nations economy runs on automobile travel, what benefits do we get from guns for nearly as many fatalities?

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http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/16/gun-deaths-versus-car-deaths/
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Peace of mind and the ability to defend ourselves because the police can't! And never could! ;)

Not to mention that cars are becoming safer and many bad drivers are being taken off the road.

Gun deaths are trending up slightly, due to the increased Gang Banger mentality, the loss of the war on drugs, and the lack of strong enforcement and laws in liberal run cities and states.

Your graph is flawed, because the Violence Policy Center ..................LIES and constantly manipulates the Truth!
 
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