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Anybody here pause to look up some data before posting?
I mean, like PlayboyPenguin said, it's about ownership, not sales. If you don't understand the difference then perhaps it's best to keep quiet.
Gallup:
Gun Ownership and Use in America
A 1% change in household ownership from 2000 to 2005, rising from 41% to 42%. Probably statistically insignificant.
The past five years, who knows, the graph linked in the OP could be right, since it comports with the slight rise in the 2000-2005 timeframe that Gallup covers.
The fact is, the General Social Survey quoted in the article is a massive longitudinal study carried out by heavyweights, not by some partisan hacks. So you can "disagree" with it all you like, but pithy anecdotes about what you saw and heard are not merely irrelevant, they're ridiculous by comparison.
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It makes no difference. Until a Constitutional Convention or 2/3 of both houses of Congress abolish 2A, and it's then ratified by 3/4 of the states, our right to ownership stands.
Unless the BATF and the present administration keep changing the definition on what guns we are allowed to own! They just need to keep outlawing various types of guns by various means and letters. We can still have the right to own guns, but just not the ones "outlawed". They're already trying that with shotguns.
Eight U.S. Presidents have been NRA members. They are: Ulysses S. Grant,
Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Dwight D. Eisenhower,
John F. Kennedy, Richard M. Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George Bush
80 MILLION gun owners didn't shoot anyone today, a few criminals did!
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The "Feedback Score" is low by 4, not everyone posts it I guess.
Deen
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