Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: A recent gun nut talking point. [View all]jimmy the one
(2,708 posts)kang: Female gun ownership is up nearly 300% in recent years. Women will ultimately vote against what they see as an attempt to leave them and their families defenseless.
Ultimately? I think maybe 80 - 90% of females do NOT own any guns. What kind of argument you make, kang? other than lying by statistics.
kang: There are well over 300 million guns in civilian hands alone in this country..
Well the ratio of guns per existing gun owner has gone from about 4.5 to over 6, iow most all of those new guns are going to existing gun owners to supplement their arsenals.
{On EDIT: Obviously I wrote this wrong, or there would be nearly 500 million guns, rather than the approximated 280 - 300 millions; It is rather that, iirc: Of those gun owners owning more than 2 firearms (or 3?), their ratio of guns has risen from approx. 4.5 to over 6. This would be qualified by say 30% of gun owners owning more than 2 or 3 guns: (~25 million x 6 = 150 million guns, plus remaining ~55 million gun owners x 2 = 110 million guns, for grand total 110 = 150 = 260 million guns, more or less. Mea culpa.}
More importantly, gun ownership has been declining since the early 1990's, by about 25%:
gallup & gss, & pew by affidavit, agree that gun ownership rates declined about 30% from the period ~1992 thru 2000 (the Clinton years), the very years the most dramatic decline in violent crime rate occurred (dropping ~35%).
That is a correlation between ~30% dropping gun ownership rates, with ~35% dropping violent crime rate.
The Pew Research Center has tracked gun ownership since 1993, and our {PEW} surveys largely confirm the {GSS} General Social Survey trend.
In our Dec1993 survey, 45% reported having a gun in their household; in early 1994, the GSS found 44% saying they had a gun in their home.
A Jan2013 Pew survey found 33% saying they had a gun, rifle or pistol in their home, as did 34% in the 2012 wave of {GSS}. http://www.people-press.org/2013/03/12/section-3-gun-ownership-trends-and-demographics/ --- pg4;