Why Gun Control advocates will end up with egg on their face once again...

[iverglas]

108. moon made of cheese while murders are down

Because I said so, that's why.

There appears to be an effort at proof by blatant assertion in your subject line.


http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2011/04/26/One-third-of-US-households-own-guns/UPI-46991303850331/

WASHINGTON, April 26 (UPI) -- Almost one-third of U.S. households report having any guns in the home -- the lowest level ever since the survey began in the 1970s, a survey indicates.

The report by the Violence Policy Center is an analysis of data from the General Social Survey conducted by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago. The report says household gun ownership peaked in 1977, with 54 percent of households reported having any guns.

Male gun ownership peaked in 1990, with 52.4 percent of U.S. men reported personally owning a gun, but this dropped to 33.2 percent in 2010. Female gun ownership peaked in 1982 at 14.3 percent and dropped to 9.9 percent in 2010.

(If you have different info about the GSS, or want to analyze the results yourself, feel free to do so.)

The decline has been long and steady.

Not that I would claim this is very closely connected to the observed decline in violent crime, myself.

On that, I might just say there was nowhere to go but down, when you have a consistent 10,000 or so firearms homicides a year in a supposedly developed nation.

Kind of the corollary of how when there are about 50 firearms homicides a year in England and Wales, with a population of about 60 million, it's going to be pretty hard to go any lower.