Posted on 03/10/2015 8:00:31 AM PDT by Paul46360
" The number of Americans who live in a household with at least one gun is lower than it has ever been.."
(Excerpt) Read more at newser.com ...
See post #39
Wow! I think that gun-owning Freepers need to avoid water sports. Seems like boating accidents are quite common among that crowd.
;^)
What if i toss a rock from a fast moving chevy ?
This is my rifle, this is my gun. One is for fightin, one is for fun.
“Ownership” is down because no one wants to admit owning a gun for fear of confiscation. How many of us are willingly telling our doctors that we keep guns in the house? Or, given the current emphasis on mental illness or PTSD, what person seeking medication will admit to owning a gun? And then there is the issue of having illegal parts in the communist states of New York and California. No, it’s better to just deny ownership than become a target on some administration’s list. And lest we not forget, there is the contingent of illegal gun owners who would never admit ownership. Of course the liberal media will fail to draw reasonable conclusions from increased sales and decreasing ownership because it doesn’t fit the propaganda campaign they are forcing on the American people.
Did they ask how many had boating accidents?
I was reading your post, and it occurred to me:
Having not read the Obamacare law in its entirety, I’m wondering if answering untruthfully to a question a doctor poses in a health exam amounts to making a false statement on a government form.
You either admit you’ve got guns, or you lie about it, which I agree is likely why the numbers are down. If you lie, it can be argued you made a false statement to a federal official.
How successfully it can be argued in a court is likely something awaiting some cursed bloke who’s kid gets a hold of a person’s gun and injures or kills themselves.
Prosecutor: We subpoenaed your medical records, and it says here you indicated you did not have any guns in the house just last May. If that’s true, how’d your son shoot himself in your bedroom last June?
Citizen Perpetrator: Lawyer.
Prosecutor: Get a good one, because that statement just made your little accident a federal offense. You lied to a doctor. That form went to the IRS. The IRS has you on the record that you didn’t own a gun. You lied, sir. You cop and we’ll reduce all of this to a misdemeanor, but you will have to give up the names of your neighbors you know to possess guns. What say you?
That POS Øbama will taking credit for this too....
“Ruger Posts $14.8 Million Loss for 4th Quarter”
Couldn’t that just mean everybody’s got what they need? lol
Guns? no, I keep the safe for my coprolite collection, in few million years or so it will fossilize.
How were their sales in previous quarters? I would bet they were unusually high.
Consumers already purchased their product.
Despite more than six years of record-setting firearm sales? Sounds more like "Trust in Government and Pollsters at Lowest Level" would be a more accurate title for this article.
I for one will own up to owning a gun - OK so it is a toaster pastry nibbled in the shape of a gun, but it is still known to be dangerous.
I blame the rise in boating accidents.
I now do all my fishing in my local lake with a giant electromagnet. I have been very pleased with my iron fish that I catch. Unfortunately my magnet is not strong enough to pick up a howitzer.
Combination of not telling and not even picking up the phone when the polling call comes in.
Either because you can see it’s a pollster calling, or are out of the house doing something. Like hunting. Or skeet shooting. Or at the range for a little target practice.
“Or just the number of people willing to write in a survey they have a gun in their house is down....
May be more a sign of less trusting giving out that information than actual decrease ownership. That would be my case.”
I’d imagine that the increased gun sales were made, at least in part, to newcomers who have come to the realization that our government is out of control and interested in confiscating their newly purchased weapons. So they would most likely be also of a mind not to answer the “poll” accurately. Most people I know who have guns, don’t like to talk freely about their presence in their homes.
I don’t own any...............
I live on a cul-de-sac................
Maybe they just think it’s at a low level because so many of those asked if they have guns at home rightfully answered “none of your effin’ business.”
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