Guns for everybody
Michael Silence emails a link to this:
A new Gallup Poll shows that the average American owns 1.7 guns, with the average gun owner possessing 4.4 of them. More than half of those living in rural areas (56%) own a gun, compared with 40% of suburbanites and 29% of those living in urban areas.
Excellent. More here:
For one thing, one out of three American women say they own a gun. That’s not much below the overall mark of 40% for all American adults.
As for other elements of the stereotype: More than half (53%) of Republicans own guns, compared with 36% of political independents and 31% of Democrats. Whites are more likely than nonwhites to own (44% and 24%, respectively), according to Gallup.
Residents of the South are significantly more likely than those living in other regions to report owning a gun. More than half of those living in rural areas (56%) own a gun, compared with 40% of suburbanites and 29% of those living in urban areas.
January 5th, 2005 at 11:35 am
I saw the Gallup poll’s analysis of this poll before they put the article in its subscriber area (you can get a 30-day free trial). I put up a post talking about some good news within this poll (scroll to Janury 4, 2004). For one thing more people than before think having a gun in the home makes it safer.
I don’t know who commissioned the poll, how the questions were asked, what the questions were, etc. However, I doubt that only 38% of Americans own guns. There may be a lot of gunowners who, for privacy reasons, say they do not own guns.