TexasRifleman
Moderator Emeritus
or how handsome you are is always very reliable over the phone.
They calling you about that too? I thought it was just me......
or how handsome you are is always very reliable over the phone.
From 1972 to 2006, the percentage of American households that reported having any guns in the home has dropped nearly 20 percentage points: from a high of 54 percent in 1977 to 34.5 percent in 2006.
First answer: F*%K you, and I hung up.
Having lived my entire life in the four corners states, I have to agree with that one. These idiots flee CA, the midwest and the east because of the problems there, and they bring their idiot voting habits with them (which caused the problems in the first place). What ever happened to "when in Rome?"It is like a disease infesting America.
What have you done to spread our culture today?
So why be surprised when surveys about attitudes towards firearms come up with results favoring the anti perspective? But this one was probably market research by some company you've done business with. The general social survey is not going to start by asking questions about hunting.
NORC is a well respected research center. There may well be flaws in the conception of the questions, in terms of nonresponse bias, and in the interpretations put on the results - but it is extremely unlikely that the actual conduct of the survey was twisted in order to produce results fitting the VPC agenda. In any case the person calling doesn't have anything to do with somebody's political agenda and there's no need to be rude to them (I'm talking about serious interviewers here, aggressive telemarketers etc are fair game IMO).
Good point. An honest headline might read, "Gun ownership growing, but population growing faster."
--Len.
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This information comes from the General Social Survey (GSS) which is conducted by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago.
Research generated by a branch of an institution, any institution, usually produces data that is favored by the institution. That's where the branch receives its funding.
Let's see. I wonder what a liberal university in the most gun-hostile city in the nation would like to believe. Hmmmmm.