But gun ownership is on the decline, they lied
A new Economist/YouGov poll said that nearly 4 in 10 American households have guns, with 56 percent claiming not to have one.
That is a sizable uptick from the four-decade drop in household ownership charted by the authoritative General Social Survey. It pegged household gun ownership at 50 percent in the 1970s, 49 percent in the 1980s, 43 percent in the 1990s, and down to 35 percent in the 2000s. The latest 2012 statistics put the share of households with guns at 34 percent.
January 13th, 2014 at 9:02 pm
What percent won’t answer the poll?
January 13th, 2014 at 11:44 pm
That assumes the degree of truth-ness about owning a firearm has remained constant.
I’d argue truthi-ness has decreased due to a lack of trusting who’s on other end of the phone.
Surely ALL those guns being sold the last five years aren’t going to Mexico.
January 14th, 2014 at 12:44 am
I sure don’t have any, in case they want to know, but surveyors and I don’t belong together.
January 14th, 2014 at 10:28 am
Uh huh. Yep, I’m going to answer some random survey from someone I don’t know about the possibility of me, owning a gun. That number is low, very low.
January 14th, 2014 at 11:31 am
I don’t own no stinkin’ gun – just ask me.
January 14th, 2014 at 11:44 am
My answering machine refuses to answer pollsters’ questions for me, and I won’t, so here’s another gun owner who has never answered a poll on that question, or any other.
In my entire life I have listened to exactly one cold sales pitch at home – never on the phone – and that one only because the woman told me she’d appreciate my letting her practice once since she was new, despite my blunt statement that I never, never bought from door to door salespersons. Then she was miffed when I told her the sales pitch was perfect, but I still wasn’t interested. Go figure.
January 14th, 2014 at 1:52 pm
There is not a single gun in my household. True answer. (instead there are around twenty, but don’t tell anyone)