There is considerable variation about how many people own guns. When more gun restrictions are being promoted/discussed, fewer people say they have guns.
25%???
The absolute floor I’ve seen everywhere else is 33% and I’ve seen estimates that run as high as 50%. Lots of people don’t like to tell survey takers they’re gun owners. Others of us have had tragic boating accidents.....
Things that can be tracked with certainty are the number of guns purchased (way up in the last decade), the number of concealed carry permits issued (over 15 million), NRA membership (over 6 million now). All of these indicate gun ownership is increasing rather than decreasing.
Yet sales have gone up wildly over the last 10 years.
My 58yo Dem/lib/loon brother-in-law just purchased guns.
If even the the anti- Constitution, gun-hating Dem/lib/loons are buying guns...how can they belittle the numbers of Constitution-loving Conservative gun ownership?
We’re out here in numbers too great to imagine...and they know it.
I was a strong supporter of gun ownership rights long before I actually purchased a gun. A lot of people fall into that camp.
Last year I got an ambulance ride to the hospital after my heart stopped and my wearable defibrillator went off in the Chipotle parking lot. When I got to the hospital and took my clothes the nurse, in reference to my handgun said "We'll lock this up for you. Be sure to ask for it when we check you out." Later she came by with "the survey" - Have you experienced any episodes of depression? Any thoughts of suicide? Do you have any firearms in your home? Etc. I answered "No" to all the questions. She never even blinked.
For the record, my medical file still says that I don't own any firearms.
This is an outgrowth of the ridiculous Harvard/Northeast U “survey” which asserts that three percent of gun owners possess fifty percent of America’s guns. It also claims that gun owners make up only one sixth of the total population, thus signalling politicians that they can safely advance confiscatory gun control with no election day repercussions.
As noted, what sane gun owner is going to tell some anonymous poll taker that he owns guns, or even more stupidly, how many?
Washington Compost = Loons On Parade.
Totally unreliable FAKE NEWS.
All the BS that’s fit to print.
Plus, a lot of these studies probably don’t take into account how many people were gun owners until just before an unfortunate boating accident.