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U.S. homes with a gun has been in steady decline over the past four decades, with a surprisingly sharp drop in the South and Western mountain states. Whereas an average of 50 percent of households owned a gun in the 1970s, that number declined to 35 percent in the 2000s, with 34 percent of households reporting gun ownership in 2012
originally posted by: InverseLookingGlass
They are the ones that claim to be the good guys that will show up and shoot the bad guys -which by the way are hiding behind every bush.
IMO, People are seeing this group for what they are. Self indulgent, spiritually bankrupt, bullies. Try debating this crowd during an open carry "demonstration" and see their emotional maturity on full display.
I'm pretty sure most of us who advocate for gun ownership have been telling people this for awhile now.
Proportion of Households with Firearms:
2012: 34.45
2010: 32.3
2008: 36.0
2006: 34.5
2004: 37.3
2002: 36.4
2000: 34.3
1998: 36.7
1996: 43.4
1994: 44.0
1993: 45.5
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originally posted by: lemmin
a reply to: eXia7
I'm pretty sure most of us who advocate for gun ownership have been telling people this for awhile now.
Why would you assume this information would support gun-ownership? I would think that these stats coupled with the fact that the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act was enacted at the end of 1993 - the beginning of the decline - is strong evidence for opposition.
I just did a quick search and found that gun-ownership dropped respectively to the chart as well:
Proportion of Households with Firearms:
2012: 34.45
2010: 32.3
2008: 36.0
2006: 34.5
2004: 37.3
2002: 36.4
2000: 34.3
1998: 36.7
1996: 43.4
1994: 44.0
1993: 45.5
Source
originally posted by: Kandinsky
a reply to: Domo1
The way much of the media makes it sound, we should all be getting beaten and robbed on a regular basis. The gun lobby has the difficult role of portraying society as being highly unsafe (criminals and tptb) and safe (ccw, armed populace) at the same time. Lost in all that politicking and media salesmanship is the evidence that overall crime has been dropping for a long time in the western world.
The pdf you link has this >>
...and similar patterns have been noted in Northern Europe on recent years. There have been some interesting speculations that removing lead from petrol in the 80s has helped amongst other reasons like expensive alcohol.
It's more interesting to me as it cuts right through the BS politics that have come to fuel discussion on ATS. That decrease in crime isn't thanks to any colour of political party and no president can be blamed or saluted for it either. Likewise, it hasn't come about from arming everyone or gun sales because similar decreases are happening in European countries without guns.
originally posted by: InverseLookingGlass
The number of households with guns is dropping.