Jusme wrote:bblhd672 wrote:Skiprr wrote:Recent Gallup polls show that 41% of American households say they have a firearm in their homes. Let me ask you: If you received a Gallup pollster's telephone call some evening after dinner asking if you had guns in your home, how many of you would respond with, "Yes; of course"?
Anyone from any organization calling me and asking questions that's none of their darn business gets hung up on.
I also believe the Gallup numbers are way off base, with the number of firearms that have been sold over the years, and the fact that a very small percentage of them actually "wear out" , have been confiscated, or have to be destroyed, if only 41% of Americans owned firearms It would mean that there would have to be hundreds of guns per household in that 41%. I doubt that most people would answer honestly when a stranger calls, asking about owning guns. I wouldn't tell them I owned anything TVs, computers, automobiles, jewelry, or any other big ticket items. It is no one's business what I own, and I'm sure not going to provide information to someone who claims to be a poll taker. JMHO
I assumed that if there are 320,000,000 people in the US, and if ~20% of them are under 21. Then there are ~256,000,000 adults and so I just say half of that many households so ~130,000,000 households. And if 40% of those households have firearms that means 52,000,000 households with guns. So if there is ~300,000,000 guns spread among 52,000,000 households that's about 6 guns per gun-household. I've got a couple more than that. So I'm pulling my weight, but my collection is tiny compared to many on this forum.
