From an Email forwarded by Reader Roger C.
More from the RAND study: How many Americans own guns? The question is essential to our understanding of gun violence — but reliable data on the subject is scarce. Included in the new RAND report, however, is a synthesis of existing research on state-level gun ownership. The resulting analysis fills in the details of a trend whose contours were already known: The prevalence of gun ownership has declined in virtually every state over the past several decades. Daniel Nass explains RAND’s methodology — which one gun violence researcher described as “comprehensive and statistically sophisticated” — and made some visuals from data here.
You go into what they call study, and you are forced to laugh and want it to spit. They have to acknowledge that since there is not a reliable way to count guns, even when they ask nicely to people (We lie about ownership? I wonder why), they have to “extrapolate data to achieve their results Some of the “extrapolated” data comes from the number of hunting licenses and even subscriptions to Guns and Ammo. Yeah, no shit that is going to be less than accurate since a lot of people in Gun Culture 2.0 don’t do paper magazines nor hunt. The other data points? Suicides. Talk about being freaking ghoulish for political bullshit.
And it is from that suicide study that we get this quote:
About 40% of America’s households own at least one firearm. The prevalence of ownership differs widely by region, ranging from 25% in the Northeast and 35% in the Pacific states, to 60% in the East South Central region.1 Just where a particular state or city falls along this wide spectrum may have a variety of consequences for crime and public health.
See? They have been telling us that fore ever. We are not a majority! We have no real power!
Now allow me to show a screen cap from a post I made in Feb 20, 2013:
So, according to The Trace and the Rand Corporation, the number of households with guns has actually gone up! from 32% to 40%.
According to US Census Bureau, there are almost 120 million households in the US with an average of 2.63 inhabitants per household. That would make for 48 million households with a gun inside. And if you are very noble and only allow one person in the household to own that solitary gun, we would have 48 million Gun Owners as the very lowest of estimations.
If we only count adults over 18 (about 70% of the population) we get 1.81 adults per household or 72,400,000 Gun Owners. I know that many people under 18 own guns, specially outside the Gun Free Zone cities, but I did not find the percentage out of expediency for this post.
Now, all this is with the data provided by The Trace.
Now, this is my math and I would not be surprised if I made a booboo somewhere and I am still short, but the idea that Gun Owners in this country are an insignificant minority is plain stupid. LGBT who consider themselves and influential minority put themselves at 4.5% of the population.
We are 22.5% of the population according to The Trace.
The top 10 biggest armies in the world combined come to 7,224,000 soldiers.
U.S. Gun owners are 10 times that according to The Trace.
I don’t think that is what The Trace was expecting to achieve.
There’s two kinds of numbers- propaganda numbers and planning numbers. Using the propaganda numbers for planning is always a recipe for a bad time.
This cargo cult study is obviously a propaganda move, but it’s a stupid one under the current circumstances.
I also suspect that for some, there’s the kook new age idea that if they say something in an authoritative media, then their words can become reality.
Over 2million nics checks in march alone. And we set records every month. More bullshit from anti gun morons. Side note- multiple gun purchases only do ONE nics check.
And reports that many of those checks are for first time gun buyers.
Well, until my lay off, I was trying, very hard, to do MY part!
Anti-gun idjits can’t do math ‘cuz it be raycissst or sumthin’.
“If [group I don’t like] is a small enough minority, I can oppress them into oblivion.” – Every Leftist ever
Which is fine, if the group you want to oppress is actually the minority, or if your group has all the weapons, or if you’re honestly the people that everyone needs to keep things going (eg the coal miners in “Chernobyl”).
Those who are themselves an unpopular minority with no weapons and no real jobs had best keep that fact in mind.
Remember what Sun Tzu said about knowing oneself and one’s opponent.