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Originally Posted by DFINITLYDISTRUBD
I assure you that that figure is inaccurate...in my entire life I've never known a person (internet not included) that didn't own or been in a house where there wasn't at least a rifle for hunting . (Not everyone I know hunts though so some of the rifles are simply belonged to a relative that passed it down to them)
I own three a 50 cal rifle, a 32 special longrifle, and a sawed off 12 gauge (double barrel breech load), also a crossbow (my shoulders are too frigged up to use a conventional bow.)
Dad has a few as do all 4 of my uncles, countless cousins, and all of my friends and coworkers (or in some cases their husbands own them technicaly).
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so you are saying there are MORE guns than 25%?
* Private Firearm Ownership in the U.S. as of 1993/1994:
This site might support you
Just Facts.com --> Gun Control
Households With a Gun
Adults Owning a Gun
Percentage
49% 31%
Total number 47,600,0059,100,000
Wiki says
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About 59.1 million adults in the United States personally own a gun. In 1993-4, roughly 93 million adults, or 49% of the adult U.S. population, lived in households with guns.[6] There is no national gun register in the USA, so it is impossible to know exactly how many guns are in circulation or who has them, but the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) estimates there are more than 200 million firearms owned by civilians in the United States
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What are you frightened of? Yourselves?
As for the death penalty many jurors now won't convict because they do not want blood on their hands.
It is not a deterrent to crime, at best, it is vengeance.
See the very many Amnesty International articles/position papers/research on the subject.
