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Okay I'm taking a look at the Data Source itself, the General Social Survey. Some interesting Data I've found so far. The very latest data came in was October 2012 with the great majority of the data being collected before then. Since we've seen unprecedented gun sales lately the survey is inaccurate for today on it's face.
Here is the gun part of the questionnaire they handed the surveyors.
HUNT: Categorical (Single)
And now a question on a different topic. {spfill} go hunting? CODE ONE ONLY.
Categories:
{yes_respondent_does} Yes, RESPONDENT DOES
{yes_spouse_does} Yes, SPOUSE DOES
{yes_both_do} Yes, BOTH DO
{no} {response to hunttxt}
{dontknow} DON'T KNOW
{refused} REFUSED
OWNGUN: Categorical (Single)
Do you happen to have in your home (IF HOUSE: or garage) any guns
or revolvers?
Categories:
{yes} Yes
{no} No
{dontknow} DON'T KNOW
{refused} REFUSED
If OWNGUN = {yes} Then
PISTOL: Categorical - (Multiple)
Is it a pistol, shotgun, rifle, or what? CODE ALL THAT APPLY.
Categories:
{pistol} Pistol
{shotgun} Shotgun
{rifle} Rifle
{other_specify} Other (SPECIFY)
{dontknow} DON'T KNOW
{refused} REFUSED
If PISTOL.ContainsAny({other_specify}) Then
GUNSPEC: Text
PLEASE SPECIFY OTHER TYPE OF GUN.
If you came nosing around my house asking these questions, even as a part of a general questionnaire I would show you the door as well as not answering your questions about my guns.
The response rate is, by their own figures, is less than one percent with no effort to control for the fact that only those individuals who were comfortable with this level of privacy invasion, a small and distinct subset of the average person, responding.
I am starting the research on the people in charge of this.