Just three percent of adults own half of America’s guns

[Catskillkid]

Is 3% a coincidence? I think not.

We are the 3%!

Why not use the Occupier's slogan against them?

 

[Greywolf224]

I never did like being associated with the BABY BOOMER generation.
I think the 3 PERCENTERS has a definite ring to it.

 

[pjzwtl]

I call BS on the professors numbers common sense alone says otherwise

 

[gun_slinger_boy]

67.56% of statistics are made up on the spot.

 

[Saltwater60]

I do t believe this. What would you do if some random person called you and asked it you had guns in the house. I'd say nope not interested.

 

[VietnamEraVet]

My answers to surveys:

1. Unless I'm in a really generous mood, my stock answer is: "I don't do surveys. Now, fuck off, and don't bother me again".

2. If a survey called and asked "Do you own any guns?", my answer would be "No. Now fuck off and go away...". (Why? Because I own firearms, not guns).

3. If a survey called and asked "Do you own any firearms?, my answer would be "No. Now fuck off and go away...". (Why? Because I own guns, not firearms).

Screw 'em. It's none of their damn business anyway.

 

[Deplorable Me]

Maybe they surveyed our wives?

 

[FRANKIE]

And then there's the "Builders", America's best kept secret.

 

[BerettaGuy]

Using their numbers then: If 9,000,000 Americans or 3% own half of the guns or 132,500,000 guns which equals 14.7 gun per person, this leaves 132,500,000 guns for the others.
So 141,500,000 or 47% of America is armed.

Do you see what I did there, I proved the age old statement that figures don't lie, but liars figure.

Instead of using the number of Americans, try using the number of American Households (115,227000). The picture changes:

If 3,456,810 or 3% of american household own half of the guns or 132,500,000 guns which equals 14 guns per household, this leaves 132,500,000 guns for the remaining 111,770,190 which means 97% of American house holds are armed.

 

[dsdmmat]

Using their numbers then: If 9,000,000 Americans or 3% own half of the guns or 132,500,000 guns which equals 14.7 gun per person, this leaves 132,500,000 guns for the others.
So 141,500,000 or 47% of America is armed.

Do you see what I did there, I proved the age old statement that figures don't lie, but liars figure.

Instead of using the number of Americans, try using the number of American Households (115,227000). The picture changes:

If 3,456,810 or 3% of american household own half of the guns or 132,500,000 guns which equals 14 guns per household, this leaves 132,500,000 guns for the remaining 111,770,190 which means 97% of American house holds are armed.

Their numbers only count "adults." You would have to reduce your 3% by around 50%. Now who knows what percentage you would have to use for American households, as we know households are no longer "2 adults and 2.5 children." So your household number could be low or high. Figure it is all BS anyway, most gun owners are not stupid enough to tell a pollster yeah I have guns. I bet a lot of anti gun people secretly tell pollsters and other door to door poll takers they have guns.

 

[BerettaGuy]

YUP! and dsdmmat just proved another old adage, If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit. The people that swear by polls usually are benefiting from the poll it self.

 

[prambo]

It's the Washington Post and Harvard for fuck's sake!!! Who believes anything they say?

But, let's be analytical, and do some simple math.

A WaPo article from almost 1 year ago (There are now more guns than people in the United States) estimated the number of guns in the US as of 2013 at 357 million. Due to the fact that WaPo and the ATF are known liars, and there has been a buying spree going on for a while, let's round that up to 400 million - I believe that is an underestimate at best.

Now, the number of "adults" in the US - Estimates of the US population (non-institutionalized) in 2012 by done by the US Census Bureau (Age and Sex Composition in the United States: 2012 - People and Households - U.S. Census Bureau) - a .GOV agency, and therefore liars by definition (I'll use all "liar" data to be consistent) puts the US population at 20 years+ to be 227 million.

So to estimate the 18+ age cohort, let's add another 10 million (from the 15-19 year cohort), and then add 2% per year for population growth for 4 years, and you get about 250 million people of both sexs aged 18+.in 2016 (plus or minus who's lying, fabricating, or outright bullshitting).

I'm sure they included in their "adults" who own guns: FFL holders, big box stores, and museums.

All the figures from the Harvard-Northeastern study presume that the 4000 people they surveyed are telling the truth - FUCKING BULLSHIT!! - if a "researcher" from harvard asked me if I had any firearms, even if I had one on a sling over my shoulder sitting there, I'd lie to them. if he said ther was a gun over my shoulder, I'd say - "You're a motherfucking hoplophobe, you see guns everywhere, so you're untrustworthy". Back to the math.

So, that gives us 47.5 million 18+ adults own 50% of the guns, and 7.5 million adults 18+ own the other half.

Thus, the former group possess 8 guns/adult and the latter "super gun hoarders" own 53 guns each.

I call BULLSHIT!! I don't know anyone who has 50+ firearms, other than people with a shop and an FFL.

A more cogent conclusion from this study is that the 78% of the population that says it possesses NO guns contains a crap-ton of very smart people who were not going to tell Harvard shit about what they do or do not own.

"Concealed is concealed." Indeed.

 

[dsdmmat]

It's the Washington Post and Harvard for fuck's sake!!! Who believes anything they say?
....... Edited for brevity.........

I call BULLSHIT!! I don't know anyone who has 50+ firearms, other than people with a shop and an FFL.

A more cogent conclusion from this study is that the 78% of the population that says it possesses NO guns contains a crap-ton of very smart people who were not going to tell Harvard shit about what they do or do not own.

"Concealed is concealed." Indeed.

I know quite a few people who own more than 50 firearms ( non shop keepers nor FFLs) and they use them too.

 

[prambo]

I know quite a few people who own more than 50 firearms ( non shop keepers nor FFLs) and they use them too.

Your friends must be more well-heeled than mine - if I had the means, I'd probably own hundreds.

Regardless, I believe the WaPo/Harvard study is flawes, or more likely, cooked.

 

[Snappo]

I bet half of the American adults own firearms. Was this a poll of 17 people in a Walmart parking lot?

 

[Snappo]

Just read the entire article. Based on 4,000 online respondents. Not sure how that represents 325 million. Like .001% of the population was polled. I'm convinced everyone in Texas owns a gun. How many respondents were from Texas?

 

[Saltwater60]

Using their numbers then: If 9,000,000 Americans or 3% own half of the guns or 132,500,000 guns which equals 14.7 gun per person, this leaves 132,500,000 guns for the others.
So 141,500,000 or 47% of America is armed.

Do you see what I did there, I proved the age old statement that figures don't lie, but liars figure.

Instead of using the number of Americans, try using the number of American Households (115,227000). The picture changes:

If 3,456,810 or 3% of american household own half of the guns or 132,500,000 guns which equals 14 guns per household, this leaves 132,500,000 guns for the remaining 111,770,190 which means 97% of American house holds are armed.

I've got to buy 2 more guns so that I have the 14 then maybe it will rise to 4%