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Seriously flawed research on gun ownership
Henry0Reilly
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But I thought some might find it interesting to look at.
http://www.youngcons.com/number-of-guns-owned-in-each-state-shows-that-patriots-love-their-second-amendment-rights/
"We then took the estimate of 88.8 guns per 100 people for the U.S.-which, seven years later, is likely higher-and used it to calculate each state's estimated gun ownership, based on state populations from the U.S. Census Bureau's 2010 survey. (Of course, gun-ownership density varies throughout the country, but this number gave us a easy way to come up with comparable figures for all 50 states, since actual state-to-state numbers were not available.)
http://www.youngcons.com/number-of-guns-owned-in-each-state-shows-that-patriots-love-their-second-amendment-rights/
"We then took the estimate of 88.8 guns per 100 people for the U.S.-which, seven years later, is likely higher-and used it to calculate each state's estimated gun ownership, based on state populations from the U.S. Census Bureau's 2010 survey. (Of course, gun-ownership density varies throughout the country, but this number gave us a easy way to come up with comparable figures for all 50 states, since actual state-to-state numbers were not available.)
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320 million divided by 270 million equals 1.18?
Lets to the same thing for snowmobiles. It would make as much sense.
Brad Steele
Margaret Thatcher
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
Mark Twain
Mark Twain: "There are lies, damn lies, and statistics."
Now ain't that the truth!