Posted on 09/07/2005 8:35:09 AM PDT by cbkaty
Oh...Thanks...Big Gubment is on the way to help us again......and I thought all these folks had crawled under a rock for a few years rest after getting the crap kicked out of them so many times......
Highest: 63 percent in Wyoming had firearms in the home.
Lowest: 5 percent had guns at home in the District of Columbia, which has long-standing bans on handguns and semiautomatic weapons.
Same skewed results from the same skewed people with a gun grabbing agenda
I wonder how they define "children".
Yes sir, where would you rather live?
Actually, we should be very concerned that the number is so low. After all, our most decorated soldier in WWII, Audie Murphy, was out hunting for food to put on the table as a child...
It is not known how many are saved........by guns in the home...
I wonder which area has the highest accidental firearm deaths DC or Wyoming?
Without the child gun death rate figures by state in this survey it is even less than useless. I live in Alabama and I'd venture to say that though we have the highest percentage of loaded and unlocked guns around children, we are not even close to the highest child gun death rate.
My adult children were raised around loaded unlocked guns and taught how and when to use them. I live in the suburbs but am not rural.
The vast majority of which are 15 to 20 year old gang bangers murdered over drug turf, a smaller number are victims of stray bullets in drive by shootings and an even smaller number are murdered by a relative.
1.7 MILLION CHILDREN LIVE IN SAFETY AND SECURITY, LOCKED AND LOADED!
Anyone under the age of 21.
Lowest: 5 percent had guns at home in the District of Columbia, which has long-standing bans on handguns and semiautomatic weapons.
Yeah, if I lived there, I would answer the poll honestly. Not.
Yeah right! Who is going to admit to owning an "illegal" gun? )Or else its a very busy 5%.)
I would guess that the number is much higher as many people told them it was none of their effing business.
Dang, I beat your post by, like, 40 seconds! :0)
Interesting. First of all, a phone survey of 241,000 people seems to be quite an undertaking. That is a lot of phone calls, whereas political polls seem to call around 1,200 people.
Second, how likely are they to get an honest answer from those 241,000 citizens? I mean, if someone called me up and said "Do you have guns in your house, and where do you keep them?", I think they'd be unlikely to receive an answer from me at all, let alone an honest one.
Third, I'd guess that it's almost irrelevant what went on in 2002, due to the events of last week. A lot of folks went out and bought guns after 9/11, when a gun gave you a merely psychological advantage over terrorists. I haven't been to the gun store this week, but I'll bet that they are selling like crazy to people who want the very real advantage a gun gives you over a criminal.
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