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Facts show owning more than 40 guns is actually fairly common in the United States, and violence falls most heavily on the country’s poorest neighborhoods
1 posted on 11/16/2017 4:18:00 PM PST by BackRoads775
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To: BackRoads775

It’s The Guardian. Every other word is a lie, including “and”.

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2 posted on 11/16/2017 4:19:31 PM PST by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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Wasn’t it 3% of the population that fought for our freedom in 1776?


4 posted on 11/16/2017 4:21:01 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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The Guardian is just jealous.

Speaking of which, I just got my Turners Outdoorsman 2017 Holiday “Gun Porn” Guide in the mail.

I’ll have send Santa a List. I’ve been a good boy, I Voted for Trump and have TRUMP 45 Vanity License Plates on my Car.


7 posted on 11/16/2017 4:22:17 PM PST by Kickass Conservative ( THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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Really feels good to be an American.

We’re the cool kid.

The U.K. is obsessed with covering us.


8 posted on 11/16/2017 4:23:30 PM PST by Eddie01
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More likely, 3% of Americans admit to owning guns.

The other 97% marked 'No Comment'.


9 posted on 11/16/2017 4:25:11 PM PST by TomGuy
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These owners have collections that range from eight to 140 guns, the 2015 study found. Their average collection: 17 guns each

Guilty!

10 posted on 11/16/2017 4:25:48 PM PST by corlorde
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So its is those very poor people with no roof over their heads that own 40 guns each?

This liberal rag, even by the British standard, is trying to equate high gun ownership with crime, but shoot themselves in the foot when they admit that the high crime rates are found in areas where the residents are unlikely to own more than one gun.

But then most liberals are short on logic.


11 posted on 11/16/2017 4:26:54 PM PST by old curmudgeon (There is no situation so terrible, so disgraceful, that the federal government can not make worse)
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III%
14 posted on 11/16/2017 4:29:32 PM PST by Paine in the Neck ( Socialism consumes EVERYTHING!)
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" Just 3% of American adults own a collective 133m firearms – half of America’s total gun stock. These owners have collections that range from eight to 140 guns, the 2015 study found. Their average collection: 17 guns each. "

330,00,000 'mericans.

330,000,000 x .03 = ~ 10,000,000. 133,000,000 / 10,000,000 = 13.3 Including .22LRs, muskets, likely pellet and BB gunz,, muzzle loaders, Antiques, etc. What, exactly, is the point of this article? *************************** Common Sense, Comprehensive Spending Control before Gun Control....

17 posted on 11/16/2017 4:31:42 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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Let’s see... There’s Ted Nugent, Hickok45, and the rest of us.
(Not to mention the Franklin Armory Binary Trigger system I just installed in my AR)

MUAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!!


18 posted on 11/16/2017 4:31:43 PM PST by RandallFlagg (Vote for your guns!)
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Propaganda study aimed at minimizing gun ownership in the USA.

Their total only comes from surveys, where people are asked if they own guns.

There total is only 265 million guns in private hands. The actual figure is likely over 400 million.

That indicates they undercounted about 135 million, or that about 1 of three gun owners was unwilling to tell them that they owned guns.


19 posted on 11/16/2017 4:32:55 PM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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" Just 3% of American adults own a collective 133m firearms – half of America’s total gun stock. These owners have collections that range from eight to 140 guns, the 2015 study found. Their average collection: 17 guns each. "

330,00,000 'mericans.

330,000,000 x .03 = ~ 10,000,000.

133,000,000 / 10,000,000 = 13.3

Including .22LRs, muskets, likely pellet and BB gunz,, muzzle loaders, Antiques, etc.

What, exactly, is the point of this article?

***************************

Common Sense, Comprehensive Spending Control before Gun Control....

20 posted on 11/16/2017 4:33:35 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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Does this include bows?


21 posted on 11/16/2017 4:33:44 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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I’m doing my part.....


22 posted on 11/16/2017 4:34:02 PM PST by clintonh8r (I've been banned from TheHill.com. #Proud)
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You could fit almost two Europe’s into the US with room left over. How much gun crime is done there including the muzzies shooting up the place?


23 posted on 11/16/2017 4:36:08 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~)
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Translation.... strict new gun laws will only affect 3% of the population.


24 posted on 11/16/2017 4:36:11 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ...)
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At least 10% of the males will no longer admit to gun ownership. Especially in blue states.


25 posted on 11/16/2017 4:36:17 PM PST by Revolutionary ("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
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While Americans have a constitutional right to have a gun in their homes for self-defense

Interesting. I don’t recall the “in their homes for self-defense” clause in the 2nd Amendment.

26 posted on 11/16/2017 4:37:09 PM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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While Americans have a constitutional right to have a gun in their homes for self-defense

Interesting. I don’t recall the “in their homes for self-defense” clause in the 2nd Amendment.

27 posted on 11/16/2017 4:37:10 PM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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The article had so much potential, but so little follow-through.

It talks about the rates of firearm violence being concentrated among very small groups of individuals in 125 large cities. It could have gone a step further and said that it is related to drug and gang activity, but that would have beet un-PC.

It could have calculated the numbers for firearm death per 100 on the basis of those small areas and the rest of the country. When that is done you find US (no gang/drug area) firearm violence rates comparable to the rest of the developed countries that gun control advocates always compare the US to.

There are two US gun control zones, one is like a gang dominated central American country in terms of Gun violence, and the rest of the country is low gun violence similar to many European countries.

Finally, firearm suicides. Yes there are lost (too many) firearm suicides, but a famous study comparing Vancouver BC to Seattle (published in the 1990’s in the New England Journal of Medicine) found that the rates of suicide in both locations were about the same. In fact it concluded that a person who wanted to commit suicide if they didn't have access to a handgun, would probably just choose another method to kill themselves.

Unfortunately, since then suicide by cop has become much more common.

29 posted on 11/16/2017 4:38:21 PM PST by Robert357 ( Dan Rather was discharged as "medically unfit" on May 11, 1954.)
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