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Study: 3 percent owns nearly 50 percent of all guns (barf alert)
Ny daily news ^ | September 19, 2016 | Gersh Kuntzman

Posted on 09/20/2016 5:10:14 AM PDT by lowbridge

America is being held hostage by a tiny minority of absolute lunatics for whom owning two, three, eight or even 10 guns is simply not enough.

That’s the main finding of the first comprehensive study of gun owners in two decades.

Among the many findings — that handgun purchases are soaring, that Americans wrongly believe they need more guns for personal safety, and that there are more privately held guns in this country than cars — is a bit of news so shocking, it should embolden our spineless lawmakers in Washington:

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So if gun owners represent a smaller portion of our population — and nearly half of all guns are owned by dead-enders — isn’t it time for our politicians to realize that they don’t have to listen to them anymore?

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Frankly, this self-defense argument should be handled by the psychiatrists of all these fraidy cats rather than our politicians, who should be debating concrete facts, not unfounded fears.

Worse, the only thing the self-defense crowd has to fear is the self-defense crowd itself: Studies show that people who die in accidental shootings were more than three times as likely to have had a firearm in their home.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: banglist; gunculture; guns; secondamendment
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To: Rebel2016

You ain’t asking for a VOTE on that, R U ??


41 posted on 09/20/2016 5:38:06 AM PDT by litehaus (A memory toooo long)
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To: lowbridge

This is a lie !!


42 posted on 09/20/2016 5:39:27 AM PDT by Scythian_Reborn
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To: IronJack

This character is so queer that his last three boyfriends turned hetero...


43 posted on 09/20/2016 5:39:30 AM PDT by heterosupremacist ("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." (Thomas Jefferson))
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To: NorthMountain
All I ever asked for was the government to respect and abide by the Second Amendment.

As long as you don't tell me that I owe you my life and freedom because you walk around with a handgun or like to shoot trees with them back home.

44 posted on 09/20/2016 5:39:32 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (Nuke Saudi Arabia now)
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To: lowbridge

For all practical purposes, I’m a nobody, of no particular importance or popularity.

But this article is making me feel good, as I’m apparently in the top 3% of something.

Seriously, this article is just total BS.


45 posted on 09/20/2016 5:39:33 AM PDT by redfreedom
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To: refermech

Doubt it.


46 posted on 09/20/2016 5:40:38 AM PDT by Stentor
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To: lowbridge
...there are more privately held guns in this country than cars...

Exactly. More firearms than cars. Yet annual deaths by firearms (excluding suicides*) is around 13,000 per year in the US. Annual deaths by vehicle accident run over 33,000 per year.

So looking at the situation in completely practical, unemotional terms - fewer cars (than firearms) are causing more deaths (nearly 3x) per year. If this author's concern really is public safety, they ought to be applying their energies to where they can do the most good. Of course, if your objective isn't really public safety then the author might want to use emotion and manipulation to further his/her real agenda...

(*) I typically discount suicides by firearms because those people want to die. The "success rate" for suicide by firearm is very high - it is not an option someone just looking to make a statement, or crying out for help, etc. chooses. Those people want to die and they will find a way, with or without firearms.

47 posted on 09/20/2016 5:41:19 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: oblomov

My great x4 grandfather and his 4 brothers did (more than any family in his county)- after hearing Patrick Henry’s speech in St. John’s church - they lived not far from him in Hanover County, VA - I have a copy of his 1832 Revolutionary War Pension Application where he explains it all.

I was born in FL, grew up in Indiana, lived all over the country - and only found this out 3 years after I moved within 20 miles of where he lived.....I just “came home....”


48 posted on 09/20/2016 5:50:44 AM PDT by Arlis
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To: lowbridge

I wonder what percentage of hack “journalists” get the majority of publication space as opposed to the rest of the population.


49 posted on 09/20/2016 5:51:02 AM PDT by Gamecock (Gun owner. Christian. Pro-American. Pro Law and Order. I am in the basket of deplorables.)
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To: oblomov

“What percentage of Colonists fought the British?”

3%

...and today’s 3% are equipped a whole lot better.


50 posted on 09/20/2016 5:51:30 AM PDT by ctdonath2 ("If anyone will not listen to your words, shake the dust from your feet and leave them." - Jesus)
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode
< shrug >

If you want a gun, buy one.

If you don't want a gun, don't buy one.

It's (still) a (more or less) free country. I've made my choice, you've made yours.

As stated, all I'm asking for is fed.gov to respect the Constitution. We'd all be better off if it did.

51 posted on 09/20/2016 5:52:14 AM PDT by NorthMountain (Hillary Clinton: corrupt unreliable negligent traitor)
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To: lowbridge

If our representatives should not listen to the claimed 3% who are gun owners, why should they listen to the 2 or 3% of the population who are homosexuals? Sodomy kills far more people than guns owned by non criminals.


52 posted on 09/20/2016 5:53:04 AM PDT by Lion Den Dan
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To: lowbridge

The poll is obviously flawed, but that doesn’t stop Cuntzman from getting in a dither, and fantasizing about getting the cops to take away our guns.


53 posted on 09/20/2016 5:55:55 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (AMERICA IS DONE! When can we start over?)
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To: Robert DeLong

“I seriously doubt the accuracy of this claim.”

I don’t. Not unusual for a small percentage to hold a majority of something influential (money, guns, real estate, etc). It’s an exponential curve, meaning most have few but few have most.

A key statistic he’s pointedly ignoring: 50% of citizens have 100% of the guns.

There’s a diminishing return for someone owning more than others. You can only use one gun at a time, so having 100 guns really doesn’t mean much beyond someone who owns one. As “Click & Clack” put it: the difference between two headlights and one headlight is a whole lot less than the difference between one headlight and no headlight.


54 posted on 09/20/2016 5:57:39 AM PDT by ctdonath2 ("If anyone will not listen to your words, shake the dust from your feet and leave them." - Jesus)
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To: Puppage

That tiny majority includes the LSM and liberal politicians.


55 posted on 09/20/2016 5:58:06 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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To: ThunderSleeps

“...there are more privately held guns in this country than cars...”

Well yeah.
Median gun price is around $500.
Median car price is around $15,000.
You can get 30 guns for the price of 1 car.


56 posted on 09/20/2016 6:01:20 AM PDT by ctdonath2 ("If anyone will not listen to your words, shake the dust from your feet and leave them." - Jesus)
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To: lowbridge

Lets substitute LGQT for gun owner in this article.


57 posted on 09/20/2016 6:04:42 AM PDT by dila813 (Voting for Trump to Punish Trumpets!)
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To: lowbridge
Hey, Gersh?

BOOO!
58 posted on 09/20/2016 6:08:57 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (Vote for your guns!)
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To: lowbridge

New political study shows that 3% of American adults are liberals — and hold us all hostage

America is being held hostage by a tiny minority of absolute lunatics for whom the liberal agenda is their credo in life.

That’s the main finding of the first comprehensive study of liberal-leftism in two decades.

Among the many findings — that they actually believe that liberalism does good in society, that Americans benefit from an all-encompassing totalitarian surveillance government, and that there are more racially oppressed minorities in the country than the majority — is a bit of news so shocking, it should embolden our spineless lawmakers in Washington:

Roughly half of all leftism is espoused by just 3% of American adults mostly in academia and the media.

Call them “liberal idiots” or, as I prefer, “hateful stupid whack jobs” — but whatever you call them, they have a disproportionate influence over social policy in this country.

So if liberals represent a smaller portion of our population — and nearly half of all liberals dead-heads — isn’t it time for our politicians to realize that they don’t have to listen to them anymore?


59 posted on 09/20/2016 6:09:39 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: mad_as_he$$

missing one from that list- I best remedy the situation


60 posted on 09/20/2016 6:09:47 AM PDT by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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