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Thirty-eight percent of people in the United States say they keep a gun in their homes, a Gallup Poll Tuesday Briefing analysis reported. In addition to the people who say they have a gun in the house, another 2 percent said there was one elsewhere on their property, such as in a car, garage or barn.
38%+2%=40%
Those who have guns are likely to have more than one, Gallup said. A total of 62 percent of respondents said they have more than one gun in their house, including 29 percent who said they have five or more guns. This part doesn't quite make sense to me.
Do they mean that 62% of the 40% have more than one gun? (62%x40%=24.8% of US population, 29%x40%=11.6% of US population)
Those figures boost the average to 1.7 guns in every U.S. home. Gallup said the percentage of people in the United States reporting they have a gun in their homes has been near the 40 percent mark since 2000. Gallup has been polling on this subject since 1959. From that first polling through 1993, an average of 47 percent of respondents said they had a gun in their homes. Since then, that average has dropped to about 40 percent. The polling firm said tougher gun laws in the mid 1990s likely played a role in declining gun ownership. Gallup conducted telephone surveys of 1,012 adults Oct. 11-14, 2004. The data have a margin is error or plus or minus 3 percent. |