Less then half the households own a gun now.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2012/12/19/a-gun-ownership-renaissance/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2012/12/19/a-gun-ownership-renaissance/
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same hereI hate the government. That's all i have to say.
yup!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I'm sure there's people in the U.K. and Australia that said the same thing at one time.
Less then half the households own a gun now.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2012/12/19/a-gun-ownership-renaissance/
I have a hard time believing that. Running EMS in this county, at least half the homes had a gun in plain sight.
Of the people I know, other than felons an people under 21, everyone has at least one gun. Over half have one in there car.
But then Ga has the highest % or carry permits in the country floating around 10%.
I could see places like NYC, Ca, CT an RI being low cause of law though.
I can't speak for Australia but gun ownership has never been common in the UK. Sporting guns and shot guns in rural communities are common but held under police warrant and have to be kept in strict conditions. Guns must be kept in a locked steel cabinet and ammunition kept separately. Hand guns are banned but of course some criminals do hold them illegally. Gun crime is rare in UK and accidents almost non existent. For this reason all police, except for airport security/border police and specialist firearms units, are unarmed. We have had in the past our share of massacres by lunatics with assault rifles and they are totally illegal here. Maybe we have always believed that the well being of the community as a whole must always outweigh the rights of the individual.