Free Beacon – by Stephen Gutowski
A new poll published on Thursday found more Americans report having a gun in their home than ever before.
The Wall Street Journal/NBC News survey of 1,200 adults found 48 percent of Americans said they or somebody else in their household owned a gun. That’s 3 percentage points higher than when the same question was asked last year. It’s 9 percentage points higher than when the question was asked in 2011, the low point of the poll’s findings for self-reported gun ownership.
The United States Census Bureau estimates there are 249,454,440 adults currently living in America. If the Wall Street Journal/NBC News survey is accurate, that equates to 119,738,131 Americans with a gun in their home.
The National Rifle Association said while the gun ownership rate is inherently difficult to measure, the poll undermined the idea that gun ownership is slowly fading in America.
“Throughout their many failures, gun control advocates have comforted themselves with their belief that gun ownership is falling and that they will be able to achieve their policy goals once the number of gun owners sufficiently dwindles,” the gun-rights group’s lobbying arm wrote on its website. “Polling data on gun ownership rates is inherently suspect. Gun ownership is a personal decision, and given the politically charged nature of the topic and government efforts to restrict gun rights, some gun owners are reluctant to share this personal information with strangers. This could result in polling that underreports gun ownership. Other research further suggests that female spouses living in gun-owning households tend to underreport firearm ownership.
“Despite the difficulty in obtaining an accurate measurement of gun ownership, gun control advocates have been quick to boast of any new poll that shows a decline in gun-owning households. It’s unlikely they’ll exhibit the same response to the WSJ/NBC poll’s findings.”
The gun-rights group was also critical of news coverage of the poll.
“Of course, you didn’t read any headlines of this fact in this week’s press, which would have been front page news if the number had gone down,” they said.
And I swear that I don’t have a gun.
Nirvana
Come as your are.
Some say Cobain left his gun to Carrey.
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I’ll tell you a strange story.
I ran into Kurt before he was famous.
I was on the road and playing a club in Westport WA.
I went outside to have a smoke and these 3 guys came up to me…
I remember Noveselic the bassist. ..
Kurt didn’t say a word and it wasn’t Dave Grhol ..that was with them it was one of the first drummers.
This was during the time Kurt was homeless living under a bridge in Aberdeen WA.
Anyway….to make a long story short.
The kicker is that years later…
I ended up doing IT support at the ACOE on east Marginal Way with his uncle Chuck Fradenburg.
Occasionally we would hang out in his Porsche and smoke weed at lunch and he would play some of Kurts unpublished songs.
Well the kicker is that when Kurt went missing..
I was in the next cubicle to his Uncle when he got the call at work and hung up the phone.
The look on his face I’ll never forget.
He said Kurt’s dead they found his body.
Just another traumatic story in my life.
Believe it or not.
Now, that there’s a story.
But what do you mean “playing a club in Westport? You mean in addition to doing stand up (or sit down 🙂 ) you’re also a musician?
🙂
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That is interesting
What gun
Actually more Americans have MORE than one gun in their home than ever before……y’all also need a gas mask…look what they are doing in Texas
Yep
No more guns
After seeing what they have and how easy it is for them
I sold all my guns and used the money to fund me getting the hell outa dodge
I live where no one wants to run to haha (fine by me)…..some houses for rent here if anyone interested …….
the people thaT WROTE THIS HAVE NO CLUE. IN ADDITION TO KNOWING WHERE HUNDREDS OF RIFLES AND AMMO IS STORED,
I WAS TALKING TO A FRIEND OF MINE LAST MONTH. I SAID,” SOME GUYS HAVE STOCKPILING SINCE THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT”.
HE SAID,
YOU DON’T KNOW THE HALF OF IT”…………………………………………….
Yep yep.