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Abraham wrote:...as long as the guns are green, sustainable, seek social justice, and aren't racist, why, they must be good.

jason812 wrote:If we get free government money for not having 8 firearms, I don't have any so the government needs to give me 8 so I can be relieved from the anguish of being in the minority class of gun owners. Just pay no attention to any of my posts, if I referenced having a firearm, it was all a lie so I could try to fit in with the cool kids.

Flightmare wrote:I currently am just under that 8 gun threshold. My solution is to acquire more guns so that I am over that threshold.

Soccerdad1995 wrote:

Jusme wrote:Here is the key phrase: About 22 percent of Americans SAY they own guns, compared to 25 percent in the 1994 study. (emphasis mine)

This relates directly to people who won't divulge whether or not they own guns, especially to strangers on the telephone. I have never been asked about gun ownership by any pollsters/survey takers, and wouldn't admit if I were.

So roughly 1/4 of all Americans are gun owners. And Hillary believes that roughly 1/4 of all Americans are "deplorable".

Coincidence? I think not.

allisji wrote:another thing that always smells fishy to me is that they use this statistic of "% of the general USA population". It's not that there's anything wrong with slicing up the data that way as long as the results are presented in such a way that they can be interpreted fairly. However, in my opinion, the reason that they use the general population is so that they can present the result as a much smaller number. Because if you are using the "general population" as the basis of the experiment, then how many newborn babies are you polling? How many shut-ins? The upper bound of the data is some number lower than 100%. But when the general population reads a statistic that is present as a percent, they automatically assume a scale of 0-100%.

Perhaps a better number would be drawn from looking at it as a percentage of the number of US households. Because if they called my wife and my two kids and asked if they own guns, they may answer "no" Because they've never purchased, inherited, or been gifted any guns. But if I have 8 guns and we have 4 people in our family I can honestly and with a straight face say that that's just two guns per person in my household. Just two.