This should be correlated to population density:
However, it still means:
Not coincidentally, Connecticut, New York, Hawaii, Rhode Island, New Jersey and Massachusetts are next to/surrounded by water.
Lotta boating accidents there, I bet.
I *HIGHLY* doubt NH’s numbers.
-PJ
I have to wonder what their methodology is - in particular, if they were only able to get numbers for *legal* gun ownership. I have no idea how many guns gang members in LA, Chicago, and NYV own, but I suspect the percentages in CA, IL, and NY are higher than presented on that map.
Fourth place? FOURTH place?? I bet they didn’t include what I got for Christmas...
No way I believe PA’s numbers.
I would have guessed 80%, NOT 41%.
“A” firearm? Try +/- 15 - and I’m not a collector, just a life-long hunter.
I guess those numbers are just the ones they know about...
FL at 35%— more like 85%. LA the Sportsmen’s Paradise at 53% more like 90%, in fact every state esp. Alabama and Tennessee they got wrong. So people aren’t talking and right not to be. VA? no way it’s that low.
It is keeping these numbers nebulous that our Republic is kept safe from invasion from within or without.
The phrase from Gen. Yammamoto comes to mind “behind every blade of grass there are armed Americans”.
T
Notice states with the LOWEST # of guns have the HIGHEST crime.
What about those in MD that own multiple guns...
Can that impact the 30%??
Just asking theoretically...
Too bad the ones with a lot of guns didn’t have the b.lls to even SHOW UP with them when their statues were being torn down.
They didn’t even have to be used at all. Showing up would have been enough.
Give me one paesano with a baseball bat (How Italians defended their Columbus statues when it was happening) rather than 100 guys who are afraid to even show up but own 50 guns.
Here in what we lovingly call Redneck County, PA, I’d be astonished if it’s only 66 percent of us owning guns.
Philly and other urban hellscapes are skewing our numbers making us look like...weenies.
I’d like to see the crime stats alongside that list, bet there’s a big old inverse relationship there. :D
This should be correlated to population density:
However, it still means:
I remember reading in Time magazine during the Waco siege at there were some 50 million guns in Texas. That was 32 years ago. If there aren’t somewhere between 80 million and 100 million now, there is something dreadfully wrong. To say that only 45% of Texan adults on a firearm is a wall full underestimate
The problem with studies like this is that they depend upon people, being honest. Generally speaking, Americans are not going to truthfully answer a stranger about whether or not they have firearms in their home. Yes, Virginia, people actually lie to pollsters.
Compare this to a crime rate map.
Make your own conclusions.
This must be some survey of legally owned guns.
Looks like more-less half of us have some gun.
I am sure, in the states listed at the low end, there are many more people having guns illegally.
From the Pew Research Center? Yeah, that data is flawed.
your government should not even know how many guns are owned by civilians in These United States of America much less any particular state. “The only restriction written into the Second Amendment is a restriction on legislating restrictions” L.Star.