i'm not exactly new just hardly post but I have questions about guns

[jimmy the one]

17. gun owners on the decline

johnston: is gun ownership dropping or rising? I really don't care about Brady pop psychology. Quite frankly, it is related to a propaganda technique called "name calling"

Don't really know what you're driving at, but personal gun ownership has been declining:

The number of households owning guns has declined from almost 50% in 1973 to just over 32% in 2010, according to a 2011 study produced by The University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center. The number of gun owners has gone down almost 10% over the same period, the report found -- {to about 30%}.

The 32% figure for households with guns appears low balling, imo, since in other reports it's higher, up to mid 40's. But the presence of guns are increasing (national gunstock) since there's money to be made in them that hills of guns. But they're being bought mainly by existing gun owners, evidently building stairways to gun heaven.

A decreasing number of American gun owners own two-thirds of the nation's guns and as many as one-third of the guns on the planet -- even though they account for less than 1% of the world's population, according to a CNN analysis of gun ownership data.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/31/politics/gun-ownership-declining/index.html

Never realized it that way, some fraction of american gun owners, comprising less than one percent of the world's population, own about 33% of the world's guns. How many of you reading, have chests bursting with pride?
What is equally surprising is that I had previously thought extreme rabid gun fanaticism was limited to the extreme rabid rightwing fanatical fringe. Seems it hits some of my democrat colleagues as well (not really talking about you johnston, you seem moderate, half a bravo for you)