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Tracker wrote:Texas Population by zip code. It breaks down the population by age, demographics,
http://www.brainyzip.com/state/zip_texas.html

in my zip code 1 in 15 people over the age of 18 have a LTC

Shows no population in my zip code, so with 8 carriers, we either get a divide by zero error or our carrier percentage is infinity.

Liberty wrote:I caught this headline this morning on one of my feeds.
"NEWSPAPER PUBLISHES MAP showing thieves which neighborhoods are safest to rob."

Not necessarily true. For instance, where I work there may be as many as 50% with LTCs but easily 90%, and maybe even 99%, have guns at home. I have only met one person at work who admits to not owning a gun. My zip code is listed as having only 8 people with LTCs. This number is itself likely misleading because it is a zip code for a country post office where there isn't even a town. A lot of people who live where we do use the county seat zip code in their address....and we get deliveries using both zip codes. The county seat has about 330 LTCs with a town population of about 2500 but I suspect a lot of those people don't actually live in town. The county population is about 20,000.

I live out in the country and everyone of my neighbors has guns and I hear them shooting nearly every day. I doubt very many people in the area live in gun free homes. So if someone looks at those numbers and concludes that in the general area of the zip that has only 8 LTCs they've found a safe neighborhood to rob, they are probably going to be in for a big surprise. In a large urban area the numbers are no doubt different, but in a county like the one I live in I'd guess that even if only 5% or less have LTCs, homes with guns are probably in the 50% to 70% range --and maybe even higher. Those aren't very good odds if you're trying to avoid being shot during a burglary.

Very disappointed to find only 8 carriers in my zipcode.