Thursday, December 21, 2023
By the Numbers: Guns in America
Our alert last week described a recent NBC News article on rising gun ownership in America, which cited national polling numbers showing that “[m]ore than half of American voters – 52% – say they or someone in their household owns a gun.” This represents “the highest share of voters who say that they or someone in their household owns a gun in the history of the NBC News poll, on a question dating back to 1999.” The actual gun owner numbers are likely to be still higher, given that most people are unwilling to discuss their personal details with complete strangers.
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I lost all mine in a boating accident.
ReplyDeleteTodd near Denver
Causitive is lax policing and soft on crime policies.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, the tyrants rub their hands in glee that now so many more potentional criminals.
Gun ownership = criminal enterprise.
I hear that loads of democrats have bought guns these past three years, just in case Joe would F up the country.
ReplyDeleteAnd yet, they voted for him and will do so again.
You know why?
Because they are unable to admit to themselves that they were wrong.
66% of all statistics are wrong.
ReplyDeleteNice day at the range, just finished cleaning the guns. Fifty bucks worth of ammo, bowling is cheap in comparison.
ReplyDeleteThat may be true. But it's a lot more effective to shoot a late-night intruder than it is to hit him with a bowling ball.
DeleteAnd then there's the matter of follow-up shots.
That's why real bowlers have 2-3 balls...
DeleteLost all mine in a boating accident.
ReplyDeleteThey word smith the questions and answers in such a fashion that they get the results they want anyway. Figures lie and liars figure. Eod1sg Ret
ReplyDeleteHow an AR-15 works:
ReplyDeletehttps://youtu.be/omv85cLfmxU?si=QoEvqTPxrnMOuLy9
Just in case you lose yours and have to build another.
A TOP video!
The stats just reflect how many people will tell a stranger on the phone about their guns.
ReplyDeleteIs the real percentage of gun owners increasing, or just the number that will admit they own guns to a stranger? If it's a real increase, one reason is that we're getting ever farther from the 1950's, when you felt unsafe because of foreign commies and nuclear bombs, not because of domestic "free-lance socialists" (to borrow a phrase from Robert A. Heinlein).
ReplyDeleteI think a second reason is that guns are cheaper than they've ever been, if you figure the price as the hours you have to work to earn the money to buy one. Nearly every step in manufacturing has been streamlined with better materials, fabrication methods, and design for manufacturing. About the only part of manufacturing guns that has become more expensive in constant dollars is the insurance - but Congress fixed that in 2005 with the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), we just need the Supreme Court to make the lower courts follow the law.