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Title: Who are America's 'super' gun-owners?
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Yahoo!
URL Source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/americas-super-gun-owners-161748423.html
Published: Sep 21, 2016
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Post Date: 2016-09-21 20:59:55 by Willie Green
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Views: 9727
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America may hold a reputation as a country of gun owners, but a new survey shows that roughly half of the nation’s weapons are owned by just three percent of the population. Three percent of Americans own eight or more firearms, a cumulative 133 million of the country’s 265 million weapons, according to an unpublished survey from Harvard University and Northeastern University, whose results were reported by the Guardian and The Trace on Monday. These “super owners” have a multitude of reasons for accumulating their stash, from the guns' investment value, to their historical significance, to concerns about personal protection, the primary factor motivating about two-thirds of all gun owners, according to the study. While many gun owners are staunch in their defense of what they consider their Second Amendment right to protect themselves, some experts say that the fear that motivates many to accumulate weapons can be dangerous in its own right. Recommended: Gun laws: How much do you know? “If we hope to reduce firearm suicide, if we hope to reduce the other potential dangers of guns, my gut is, we have to speak to that fear,” Harvard School of Public Health firearms researcher Deborah Azrael, the lead author of the study, told The Guardian. According to the Harvard/Northeastern study, about 22 percent of American adults are gun owners. Fourteen percent of gun owners own between eight and 140 guns each. About half of American gun owners possess just one or two firearms. Yet while such massive collections might seem unusual to non-gun owners or those with just one or two guns, the individuals who assemble them say that accumulating such an arsenal happens surprisingly naturally. “The fact that you’d open the closet and have a stack full of guns in this country is really not a big deal. I know it sounds weird,” John Risenhoover told The Trace, which also reported on the study results. “It’s like buying shoes,” said Mr. Risenhoover, a retired Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agent. Like any carefully curating collector, many gun buyers make purchases to fill gaps in their collection – a historically significant firearm or a specific weapon to hunt a different type of game, for example. For some, guns are an investment. The weapons hold their value, and can be worth thousands of dollars, leading some major collectors to treat them as a potential source of retirement funds. Many others, however, became interested in collecting weapons due to a fear of violence, present or future. Two-thirds of American gun owners now say that self-defense is their main reason for owning a weapon, a dramatic change from just two decades ago, when the most-mentioned reason was recreation. One subset of the gun-owning population has assembled small arsenals in order to prepare for more apocalyptic situations. When that happens, they say, Americans will want to be armed. One Florida truck driver with an approximately 40 gun-collection, identified only as Fred, told the Trace said that after a stint as a civilian truck driver in Iraq, he worries about what could happen to society if American infrastructure breaks down. And it isn’t pretty. “All of our morals or ethics would be out the window in the fear of the inability to survive as soon we got just a little bit hungry,” he said. Fred also expanded his collection for other reasons: personal protection and readiness, as well as the aesthetic appeal of his guns, which he likens to a woman’s expensive jewelry collection. Others share Fred’s concern about a societal collapse that could leave them underprepared. "If I had to pick a number to survive a collapse, I think every person in your family or group should have a personal handgun and a personal carbine," Bryce Towsley, the author of "Prepper Guns," told The Trace. "That's a bare minimum." And, like the majority of gun owners, some super owners are interested in personal protection against more typical crime. Yet while the idea of self-defense is a powerful motivation to for buy weapons, many public health experts say that concerns about violence are largely unfounded. “The desire to own a gun for protection – there’s a disconnect between that and the decreasing rates of lethal violence in this country. It isn’t a response to actuarial reality,” Matthew Miller, a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and Northeastern University, and an author of the study, told The Guardian. Some super owners expressed concern after the study came out, worried that the idea that so many guns are in the hands of so few Americans would open a path forward for gun control campaigns to demonize them. “I’m what used to be considered a Joe Average American,” Mr. Towsley told The Trace. “I’m a little conservative in my politics. I work hard. I pay my taxes, I raised my kids.… I try to give back.” Poster Comment: Different tools for different purposes: handgun, shotgun, deer rifle...
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#3. To: GrandIsland, pimp guns (#2)
I have 47... Lorcin .25 throw downs don't count. When adding up my collection, do I have to include the M60 Patton tank I have parked in the driveway? I did include in the count my M3 Half Track w/Quad 50's, which is great if the BLM & Black Panthers try to storm up my driveway. One burst, problem solved ! :) Si vis pacem, para bellum Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. if you look around, we have gone so far down the the rat hole, the almighty is going to have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah, if we don't have a judgement come down on us. President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. --Clint Eastwood "I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within." -- General Douglas MacArthur
Is a flame thrower a gun? How about a grenade launcher? Here's my home defense weapon:
Sweet. That should come in handy if BLM, Black Panthers, or Syrian "Refugees" come to your house to start any shit, LOL !!
Si vis pacem, para bellum Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. if you look around, we have gone so far down the the rat hole, the almighty is going to have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah, if we don't have a judgement come down on us. President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. --Clint Eastwood "I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within." -- General Douglas MacArthur
3%, humm, imagine that.
Elected and unelected Bureaucrats, leeches, and cockroaches are all part of the same family in the animal kingdom.
Future Nobel Peace Prize winner? He wants the Army to take everyone’s guns... Stay ready at all times. I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
Stick your anti gun, pro libtard propaganda up your Gay Johnson loving asshole.
I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
I would say he is a " Waste of Oxygen " winner!! What a dumb ass! Si vis pacem, para bellum Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. if you look around, we have gone so far down the the rat hole, the almighty is going to have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah, if we don't have a judgement come down on us. President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. --Clint Eastwood "I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within." -- General Douglas MacArthur
Che Donnell, the Peoples Army of NY You'll turn your guns over to Generalissimo Donnell, on demand! I'd turn over a paultard on demand... But not a gun.
I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
I will throw you overboard two miles out to sea with a twenty pound anchor wrapped around your neck but never my firearms!
#4. To: A K A Stone (#3) #8. To: GrandIsland (#3) #19. To: GrandIsland (#3) #14. To: GrandIsland (#13) Hey, GrandIsland, I don’t see how throwing someone “overboard two miles out to sea with a twenty pound anchor wrapped around [their] neck is any more of a “death wish” than putting “a bullet through [someone’s] unpatriotic Paultard like cop hating forehead”….do you? How long was your suspension? Oh, Yea....fifteen days.
How about posting all of what the freak GrandIsland said. Someone should put a bullet through his unpatriotic Paultard like cop hating forehead and burry that halfrican in a pit full of shit, with his faggot ass cop hating practice socks still on his lifeless feet. Here is a half white, half black child, raised by white folks because his black father abandoned the little piglet, raised with a silver spoon by whitey... and now all of a sudden it's time to pull an Obunghole racist revolution. Well fuck you, Kap. Hopefully you're found dead with a 40 caliber hole over the left nipple... and your cop/pig socks stuffed inside the slit of your throat. I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
A death wish is still a death wish and the suspension was given for a "death wish"....wasn't it? What is the difference in the two "death wishes?" Only the method....right?
An anchor rode around the neck is much more passive and organic. The natural buoyancy of the progressive libtard gasbag is overcome by the heavy metal, and gently sinks for recycling as fish food. No comparison with Bustin' a Cap on a "Paultard", which is violent, unnatural and perverted, like you canaries. Only twenty pounds? Only two miles out? FireIsland can handle it. Just ask him.
Oh no. It is committment.
Maybe GrandIsland could and survive; Just as Jim Saunders has survived for 30 years with a bullet in his brain after his first wife put a gun to his forehead while he was asleep and pulled the trigger. Story here. So, if one is a death wish….then both are death wishes. Conversely, if one is not a death wish….then the other was not a death wish.
Screw you, tater. You're full of so much crap that your eyes are brown. See you in the funny papers, loser.
I am not "that" way....try Bucky or Deckturd for your sexual desire.
Screw you, tater. But could you then sleep at night knowing you poisoned innocent little fishes? Roger that ! Si vis pacem, para bellum Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. if you look around, we have gone so far down the the rat hole, the almighty is going to have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah, if we don't have a judgement come down on us. President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. --Clint Eastwood "I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within." -- General Douglas MacArthur
You best eat a few boxes of wheaties, there, junior.
I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
Stone knows their are many PUSSIFIED, weak, liberal thin skin fuckstains that post here. Like you. So he must make rules for the weak. I'll comply. I don't know what's weaker. Someone that relies on big daddy gov to eat everyday or someone that can't read a paragraph or view a confederate flag without shitting themselves in fear. You've always disgusted me with your weakness. I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
Seems to me, you were the one who got a time out for your temper tantrums here. Congratulations, you win the prize. Someone that relies on big daddy gov to eat everyday or someone that can't read a paragraph Perfect description of your "career" as a cop. Spin it like you will... but it was the PAULTARDS that cried I was so mean... to Stone. Because you weak ass PAULTARDS would rather remove rights than grow thicker skin. Your paultard buddy, Fred was first to shit himself in weakness.
I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
And you give advise on the Internet for free?!
He does so repeatedly...
You'll have to excuse me; I have to take my morning Gatlin. I won't forget to wipe my FireIsland.
Just sit there and shit yourself like you always do. If it is not coming out our your ass, it is coming out of your mouth.
Yeah a BIG tater for the sewer.
Of course. I'd even give you an ass whooping for fun.
I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
Isn't that a homo act?
Only if you say that statement AND: A) your name is Meguro. B) You're a faggot loving D. Johnson supporter C) You're Stink Peter Puff a-lot or one of his 40% fag relatives. D) You're Tea Party Reveler, crying like a 7 year old girl while getting handcuffed. I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
What did yukon and you do together?
Ive never met Yukon... but I have seen him kick paultard ass. lol I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
You are fascinated with men's ass, aren't you? What did you do to yukon?
Castle(C), Stein(G), Johnson(L)
#4. To: GrandIsland (#2)
#5. To: Stoner (#4)
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#6. To: misterwhite (#5)
#7. To: Willie Green (#0)
#8. To: BobCeleste, misterwhite, Stoner, Willie Green, GrandIsland, *Bang List* (#7)
(Edited)
This Rapper Has A Solution To Police Shootings And Gun Violence
Castle(C), Stein(G), Johnson(L)
#9. To: Stoner (#4)
I did include in the count my M3 Half Track w/Quad 50's, which is great if the BLM & Black Panthers try to storm
#10. To: hondo68 (#8)
#11. To: hondo68 (#8)
" Future Nobel Peace Prize winner? "
#12. To: GrandIsland, Banana Republican progressive totalitarians, Generalissimo Che Donnell (#10)
Castle(C), Stein(G), Johnson(L)
#13. To: hondo68 (#12)
#14. To: GrandIsland (#13)
#15. To: A K A Stone, GrandIsdland buckeroo, Fred Mertz, misterwhite, (#14)
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#3. To: misterwhite (#1)
Someone should put a bullet through his unpatriotic Paultard like cop hating forehead …
GrandIsland posted on 2016-09-01 23:10:26 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
Cleanup on aisle 3 please.
This poster is going to be your downfall.
Fred Mertz posted on 2016-09-02 3:47:27 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
Suspended for obvious reasons.
A K A Stone posted on 2016-09-02 8:28:50 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
I put you back on the roster. This isn't the place to wish death on people. We are a peaceful lot.
A K A Stone posted on 2016-09-17 10:43:07 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
I will throw you overboard two miles out to sea with a twenty pound anchor wrapped around your neck ...
buckeroo posted on 2016-09-22 20:47:05 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#16. To: Gatlin, Fred Mertz (#15)
Hey, GrandIsland, I don’t see how throwing someone “overboard two miles out to sea with a twenty pound anchor wrapped around [their] neck is any more of a “death wish” than putting “a bullet through [someone’s] unpatriotic Paultard like cop hating forehead”….do you?
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."
#17. To: Deckard, GrandIsland, A K A Stone, buckeroo (#16)
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How about posting all of what the freak GrandIsland said.
#18. To: Gatlin, canary gangstas, buckeroo, Fred Mertz (#15)
I don’t see how throwing someone “overboard two miles out to sea with a twenty pound anchor wrapped around [their] neck is any more of a “death wish” than putting “a bullet through [someone’s] unpatriotic Paultard like cop hating forehead”….do you?
Castle(C), Stein(G), Johnson(L)
#19. To: Gatlin (#17)
#20. To: Gatlin (#17)
What is the difference in the two "death wishes?" Only the method....right?
#21. To: Fred Mertz (#19)
Only twenty pounds? Only two miles out?
FireIsland can handle it. Just ask him.
#22. To: Gatlin (#21)
#23. To: Fred Mertz (#22)
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Screw you, tater.
#24. To: Gatlin, losers (#23)
Castle(C), Stein(G), Johnson(L)
#25. To: Fred Mertz, Gatlin, tater (#22)
Castle(C), Stein(G), Johnson(L)
#26. To: buckeroo (#14)
I will throw you overboard two miles out to sea with a twenty pound anchor wrapped around your neck but never my firearms!
#27. To: GrandIsland (#9)
" Stay ready at all times. "
#28. To: buckeroo (#14)
#29. To: Deckard (#16)
(Edited)
#30. To: GrandIsland (#29)
(Edited)
Stone knows their are many PUSSIFIED, weak, liberal thin skin fuckstains that post here.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."
#31. To: Deckard (#30)
#32. To: GrandIsland (#28)
You best eat a few boxes of wheaties, there, junior.
#33. To: GrandIsland (#31)
Fred was first to shit himself in weakness.
#34. To: Gatlin (#33)
#35. To: Fred Mertz, GrandIsland (#34)
#36. To: Fred Mertz (#34)
I have to take my morning Gatlin.
#37. To: buckeroo (#32)
#38. To: GrandIsland (#37)
I'd even give you an ass whooping for fun.
#39. To: buckeroo (#38)
(Edited)
Isn't that a homo act?
#40. To: GrandIsland (#39)
#41. To: buckeroo (#40)
#42. To: GrandIsland (#41)
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