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Poll shows gun ownership in decline
Portland Press Herald ^ | 6/29/16 | Christopher Ingraham

Posted on 06/30/2016 6:01:23 AM PDT by Haiku Guy

The percent of American households owning guns is at a near-40 year low in the latest CBS News poll released this month.

According to the survey, which was conducted among 1,001 Americans in the aftermath of the Orlando, Florida, nightclub shooting, 36 percent of U.S. adults either own a firearm personally, or live with someone who does. That’s the lowest rate of gun ownership in the CBS poll going back to 1978. It’s down 17 points from the highest recorded rate in 1994, and nearly 10 percentage points from 2012.

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(Excerpt) Read more at pressherald.com ...


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KEYWORDS: 2016polls; banglist; census; trends
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To: Haiku Guy

This poll is funny, more and more people are arming themselves.


61 posted on 06/30/2016 6:25:31 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: TomGuy

To hear people talk, you would think that certain lake and river bottoms are more metal than mud.


62 posted on 06/30/2016 6:25:40 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (New York Senator Kristin Gillibrand will be the next President of the United States)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
The population of ex-felons and immigrants here who can’t legally own guns is at an all-time high.

Any law barring them from owning arms is unconstitutional. if they shouldn't be armed, they shouldn't be roaming around free.

63 posted on 06/30/2016 6:26:22 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: Haiku Guy

“Do you own a gun?”

“No, ma’am.”


64 posted on 06/30/2016 6:27:24 AM PDT by moovova
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To: JimRed
Any law barring them from owning arms is unconstitutional. if they shouldn't be armed, they shouldn't be roaming around free.

You're not supposed to have an answer to that question!

You're supposed to just sit around with a stupid and uncomfortable look on your face.

But, fear not... Even if you do have an answer to that question, we have plenty of B-Roll footage that we can spice in to make it look like you don't...

65 posted on 06/30/2016 6:28:48 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (New York Senator Kristin Gillibrand will be the next President of the United States)
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To: Haiku Guy
That’s the lowest rate of gun ownership in the CBS poll going back to 1978

So why is there such an increase in people murdered by Muslim terrorists? Hint to liberals: keyword=Muslim.

66 posted on 06/30/2016 6:29:29 AM PDT by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
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To: Haiku Guy

Never can tell when your gun will get up in the middle of the night and slay the entire family.


67 posted on 06/30/2016 6:29:42 AM PDT by SkyDancer ("They Say That Nobody's Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: HokieMom

That was my first (and only) thought on the matter. Who in America right now that owns a gun would honestly tell the questioner anything remotely true.

I assume that all of the positive surveyed have already been added to the NFAP(?) database for future questioning.


68 posted on 06/30/2016 6:29:55 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: Haiku Guy

With record setting sales every month, I’m calling BS on the article and poll!


69 posted on 06/30/2016 6:29:57 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: moovova
“Do you own a gun?”

“No, ma’am.”

"No, ma'am... I own lots and lots of guns!"

70 posted on 06/30/2016 6:29:58 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (New York Senator Kristin Gillibrand will be the next President of the United States)
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To: Haiku Guy

Poll shows gun ownership in decline

Is Gun Ownership Really Down In America?

By John R. Lott Published March 12, 2015 FoxNews.com

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/03/12/is-gun-ownership-really-down-in-america.html

We should be very careful of relying too heavily on polling to gauge the level of gun ownership.

In a 2003 book of mine, I quoted Smith as saying that the large drop in gun ownership would “make it easier for politicians to do the right thing on guns” and pass more restrictive regulations.

Other gun control advocates have mentioned to me that they hope that if people believe fewer people own guns, that may cause others to rethink their decision to own one themselves. It is part of the reason they dramatically exaggerate the risks of having guns in the home.

A 2011 Gallup poll with the headline “Self-Reported Gun Ownership in U.S. Is Highest Since 1993” appears to have gotten no news coverage.

The ABC News/Washington Post poll shows an even more stable pattern, with household gun ownership between 44 and 46 percent in 1999. In 2013, the ownership rate was 43 percent.

There are other measures that suggest that we should be very careful of relying too heavily on polling to gauge the level of gun ownership.

For example, the nationally number of concealed handgun permits has soared over the last decade: rising from about 2.7 million in 1999 to 4.6 million in 2007 to 11.1 million in 2014. The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) shows that the number of gun purchases has grown dramatically over time – doubling from 2006 to 2014.

In Illinois, to own a gun people are required to obtain a Firearm Owner Identification (FOID) card. The number of people with those cards as soared from a little over 1 million in 2010 to 1.8 million this month.

One obvious caution is that not everyone feels comfortable noting that they own guns. A recent Zogby Analytics survey asked, "If a national pollster asked you if you owned a firearm, would you determine to tell him or her the truth or would you feel it was none of their business?” Thirty-five percent of current gun owners said it was none of pollsters’ business.

People who claim that they are not gun owners are slightly more likely to answer this way.

Gun Ownership Up 50% In 20 Years

https://www.aei.org/publication/chart-of-the-day-more-guns-less-gun-violence-between-1993-and-2013/


71 posted on 06/30/2016 6:30:36 AM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals Were Rebublicans 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: wbarmy

Agreed.


72 posted on 06/30/2016 6:30:52 AM PDT by HokieMom (Pacepa : Can the U.S. afford a president who can't recognize anti-Americanism?)
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To: Haiku Guy

Polls show alligators walk upright like us.


73 posted on 06/30/2016 6:30:54 AM PDT by Daniel Ramsey
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To: Haiku Guy

With all the gun grabbers running about i don’t. However i suspect many lied to them.


74 posted on 06/30/2016 6:31:55 AM PDT by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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To: left that other site

Plethora,,
LOVE that Word.


75 posted on 06/30/2016 6:32:05 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: Haiku Guy

And sales are at a historic high?


76 posted on 06/30/2016 6:32:20 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (JFK Wanted To Send Man To Moon - Obama Wants To Send Man To Ladies Room)
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To: Haiku Guy

This is the biggest bunch of BS EVER 420 million firearms in a country of 300 million people, folks when people state polls on Trump REMEMBER this BS ARTICLE!!!!


77 posted on 06/30/2016 6:33:35 AM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Daniel Ramsey

Maybe this survey included a random sampling of active Democrat voters.

That would explain the under-reporting, because I don’t know that many people who are buried with their guns.


78 posted on 06/30/2016 6:34:24 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (New York Senator Kristin Gillibrand will be the next President of the United States)
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To: TomGuy

I agree. When guns are outlawed, only boats will have guns.


79 posted on 06/30/2016 6:38:47 AM PDT by showme_the_Glory ((ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government))
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To: HokieMom

You are 100% correct.


80 posted on 06/30/2016 6:39:06 AM PDT by billyboy15
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