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| ParanoidObsessive 04/14/17 10:45:57 PM #5: | SkynyrdRocker posted... Yeah the gun ownership rates per person in the US are thrown off by people like this. That's always been the case. Because most people are stupid and don't know how statistics work, they hear things like "There's statistically one gun for every person in the US", and think everyone in the US owns a gun, when it's more like actual gun collectors may only be 1 person out of every 100, but they also own 20-100 guns apiece. Very few people who own a gun only own ONE gun. Whether it's someone who just owns a gun for defense but maybe has 2-3 different types for variety, or hunters who own different guns for different types of hunting or sport shooting, or straight-up collectors who own a shitton of guns but keep them on display and pristine and haven't fired a single one in decades. Those stronger concentrations even out over the entire population until the average is misleading (a fact deliberately misused by most people with agendas and unintentionally misunderstood by everyone else because most people suck at statistical analysis). But that's true of pretty much everything, though. Guns themselves aren't really unique in that respect, they're just more of a sore spot because people love to fight over them (usually without even remotely understanding the topic they're so passionate about, because most hot-button topics in politics and sociology are fueled by blatant stupidity). --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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