Showing posts with label Guns. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Guns. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Gun Ownership Rates

Buried in this post about the correlation between guns and crime is an amazing statistic. Evidently, in 1993, 45% of Americans said they owned a gun. In 2009, 33% of Americans said the same thing.

If this is true, it's quite remarkable. That's a sea change decline in gun ownership. I don't know much about this issue so I have no sense of why that would have happened (certainly I wouldn't have predicted it). Are young people more adverse to guns? That's the best reason I can think of. But it may well not be the case.