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Bota-CS1

Gallup Poll - 2/3 of Americans feel safer with a firearm in their home
« on: November 10, 2014, 08:06:51 AM »
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/11/07/Poll-Nearly-Two-Thirds-Of-Americans-Agree-A-Gun-Makes-The-Home-Safer

I was thinking it would be a little more than 1/2 of people surveyed, but 2/3 is a huge margin.
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oldfart

Re: Gallup Poll - 2/3 of Americans feel safer with a firearm in their home
« Reply #1 on: November 10, 2014, 10:03:18 AM »
Quote from: Bota-CS1 on November 10, 2014, 08:06:51 AM
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/11/07/Poll-Nearly-Two-Thirds-Of-Americans-Agree-A-Gun-Makes-The-Home-Safer

I was thinking it would be a little more than 1/2 of people surveyed, but 2/3 is a huge margin.
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Interesting gallup poll.
I read the gallup site and  that is indeed what the poll says.
However the same article says that the number of firearms in homes dropped. See the graph attached.
So what does that mean? The graph stats show wild swings up and down over the last 20 years.
I have my suspicions why the the poll shows a dramatic drop in guns in homes. Anybody want to guess what I'm thinking?
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bass monkey

Re: Gallup Poll - 2/3 of Americans feel safer with a firearm in their home
« Reply #2 on: November 10, 2014, 06:28:19 PM »
Quote from: oldfart on November 10, 2014, 10:03:18 AM
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Interesting gallup poll.
I read the gallup site and  that is indeed what the poll says.
However the same article says that the number of firearms in homes dropped. See the graph attached.
So what does that mean? The graph stats show wild swings up and down over the last 20 years.
I have my suspicions why the the poll shows a dramatic drop in guns in homes. Anybody want to guess what I'm thinking?

Boating accidents?
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Rocky

Re: Gallup Poll - 2/3 of Americans feel safer with a firearm in their home
« Reply #3 on: November 10, 2014, 06:58:02 PM »
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oldfart

Re: Gallup Poll - 2/3 of Americans feel safer with a firearm in their home
« Reply #4 on: November 10, 2014, 08:28:58 PM »
Quote from: Rocky on November 10, 2014, 06:58:02 PM
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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Clowns...

Here is my theory.
You will notice that ownership numbers, which is culled from a voluntary survey, dropped after 1994. About the time when gun laws tightened up.
People like myself got very paranoid and stopped divulging information to survey takers.
How's that for a theory?
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robtmc

Re: Gallup Poll - 2/3 of Americans feel safer with a firearm in their home
« Reply #5 on: November 10, 2014, 08:44:46 PM »
Possibly about the same time people stopped posting pics of what they had bought..........?
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Kingkeoni

Re: Gallup Poll - 2/3 of Americans feel safer with a firearm in their home
« Reply #6 on: November 10, 2014, 08:52:18 PM »
Quote from: oldfart on November 10, 2014, 10:03:18 AM
Anybody want to guess what I'm thinking?

Hillary is a C U next Tuesday?
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oldfart

Re: Gallup Poll - 2/3 of Americans feel safer with a firearm in their home
« Reply #7 on: November 10, 2014, 08:53:49 PM »
Mistake
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mauidog

Re: Gallup Poll - 2/3 of Americans feel safer with a firearm in their home
« Reply #8 on: November 10, 2014, 09:51:36 PM »
Quote from: oldfart on November 10, 2014, 10:03:18 AM
Anybody want to guess what I'm thinking?

Gun show loophole? 

Lack of accurate accounting - another reason to pass universal background checks?

Current owners are buying the majority of new guns, so the number of guns sold rises, and the number of homes with guns decline?

We have more felons now unable to legally register the guns their straw purchases buy for them?

 >:D   

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