[rktman]

It's a "See BS" slide show so look if you feel like it. Notice they mention "some guns go unregistered". In most places, I don't believe that "registration" is required but the media (including entertainment assclown) keep repeating it in stories and shows intimating that it is a requirement.

[rarestia]

The idea of “registration” is pretty common. My mother always asks if my guns are “registered,” and I have to explain to her that it’s neither compulsory nor necessary to require it. We still live in a free country for a little while longer.

[Neoliberalnot]

Can you post the list?

[MNJohnnie]

Does See BS realize the utter idiocy of this story?

Their assumptions are more valid then the actually count? The stupid here is deep and wide.

Statistics on gun ownership across the U.S. are hard to nail down; the ATF's National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record is not all-inclusive, and some guns go unregistered. But "Injury Prevention," a scholarly journal, has released what may be the closest look yet. Their survey, published in 2015, asked a representative sample of 4,000 adults nationwide whether they own firearms

[OttawaFreeper]

Don’t you just love CBS’ perspective, with the photos they show of the guns confiscated by police in various places and what was found near or on Adam Lanza’s person after his rampage at Sandy Hook? They obviously can not bring themselves to mention that areas like Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire, the Dakotas, and many others in the United States are very peaceful with very little or no violent crime with many law abiding citizens owning firearms.

[jonrick46]

It would be better to have a list. This is information that would better show the relationship between gun ownership vs murder rate by guns.

[mrsmel]

That list can’t be accurate. In some states, such as mine, you don’t have to register or have a permit to carry. The people most likely to have guns, especially in multiples, aren’t going to go around telling everyone. Everyone I know of who has one, has more than one.

[j_guru]

The numbers are suspect, because I am sure that they believe I own a number of firearms. I have none, due to a recent boating accident. Sorry to report that all were lost.

[trebb]

Mississippi's gun ownership rate is 42.8 percent.

And before all the boating accidents we had a 94.7% gun ownership rate....I don't even own a boat and lost 12 weapons and 46,000 rounds of ammo....

[Alter Kaker]

Hawaii is listed at or near the top. That seems... wrong?

[Sooth2222]

But "Injury Prevention," a scholarly journal, has released what may be the closest look yet. Their survey, published in 2015, asked a representative sample of 4,000 adults nationwide whether they own firearms. The findings helped the research group estimate gun ownership rates in each state.

If the caller ID says "Injury Prevention" and the caller asks if someone has a gun (or cash, credit cards or drugs) that's going to be accurate?

I am *extremely* skeptical.

[moovova]

What about the other seven states?

[Vermont Lt]

Wow. I am a little surprised that DC has a greater % than Mass.

Of course there are places in MA that are relatively safe. If they counted all of the illegal guns in Springfield, Holyoke, Lowell, lawrence and Worcester...the % would be over 50%! ha ha.

[jonascord]

When you read the actual study, and dissect down to the basics:

If a family has guns, and were raised with guns in the house, they are members of the Gun Culture.
Conclusion: The only way to destroy the Gun Culture is to steal all the guns and hope the Proles will forget they had Freedom...

[KC_Lion]

Alaska Ping.

Alaska is number one on the list.

Alaska has the highest gun ownership rate in the country at 61.7 percent.

[Billthedrill]

...the ATF's National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record is not all-inclusive, and some guns go unregistered.

Uh, yeah, like all of them sold before 1998, which is when the NICS was put into effect. That would be quite a few.

[WKUHilltopper]

And just how would See-BS know this?

[Kickass Conservative]

I live in Commiefornia.

Some of my Guns are Registered, but the ones I owned before CA went nuts are not, including many that were bought or traded for without Government intervention back when the Second Amendment was respected.

Never thought the day would came that I would feel like a Jew who owned a Firearm in the Warsaw Ghetto, but here we are.

[j_guru]

Ohio comes in at #45
In other news, Ohio ranks #1 in unfortunate boating accidents.

[maddog55]

We’re at 100% in my home..

[maine-iac7]

Everyone should bookmark this and posst it over and over and everywhere. Short and Sweet - no room for parsing Let the despots argue with the AUTHOR of the 2nd. George Mason: "I ask, Sir, what is the militia? To disarm the people is the best way to enslave them" George Mason - Father of the Bill of Rights & co-author Second Amendment