I'm curious about that 57% number....does it include apartments, tents, barracks, and cars (the homeless should be represented)?
I'm really curious about this strange problem you have with guns. If I invite someone into my house but I don't like guns and I DON'T KNOW THEY HAVE A GUN, where is the problem if I never find out. Most people with concealed carry don't go around shoving their weapon into people's faces. I could say the same thing about a political opinion (which is a right). I don't want that opinion in my house but if you keep your mouth shut then I don't know and you're welcome.
Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn
"The household gun ownership rate has fallen from an average of 50 percent in the 1970s to 49 percent in the 1980s, 43 percent in the 1990s and 35 percent in the 2000s, according to the survey data, analyzed by The New York Times. "
Source:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/us...anted=all&_r=0
If you are REALLY interested in whether or not people living in tents or cars are underrepresented in the poll, feel free to look it up. I'm sure it won't change the statistics very much.
Political opinions usually don't kill. Look, I don't condemn you at all for your belief that it wold be a safer U.S. if every law-abiding citizen carried a gun. Disagree yes. I support your right to own enough weapons to stop a small army if you choose to do so.
I support your right to carry a handgun on the streets. I also support your right to disagree with gun control laws that you feel are in violation of your 2nd Amendment rights as you interpret them.
You are right. If I don't know that a person is carrying a handgun there is RARELY a problem. If a gun is in my home, there is a CHANCE that it could be used against me. No handgun in my home, no chance. I won't bore you with citing articles showing the number of homicides of people inside their homes with their own handguns by someone they know or using that handgun to kill someone they know. I won't bore you with statistics showing the number homicides by CHL holders. I won't bore you with statistics showing the likelihood of a person being killed by a total stranger vs. the likelihood of a person being killed by someone they know.
So I have no problem with guns other than I know that I am safer when they are not around. Your opinion differs. That is fine.