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Old January 7, 2014, 10:49 AM   #17
JimDandy
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According to The most recent (2010) census report There are 308,745,538 people in the United States. Of which, 23.5% are under 18. This leaves 236,190,336.57 over the age of 18, and barring individual prohibitions (i.e. drugs, criminal records, mental health which would not germane as you'll see in the next link) eligible to own firearms.

Gallup's Self Reported Gun Ownership Poll 34% of people, and 47% of households report owning a firearm. That is approximately 80,304,714.4338 gun owners in the United States.

The CDC reported: All firearm deaths-Number of deaths: 31,672. This number includes suicide, homicide, and accidental deaths.

Assuming a worst case scenario that all those deaths are the result of one firearms owner, i.e. no firearm owner was responsible for more than one fatality which we know isn't the case- the percentage of firearms owners responsible for these instances of "irresponsible ownership" is .03943977% Even rounding up (to 0.04%), it's less than one half of one percent.

What does this mean? It means if we were talking about an NFL stadium seating 60,000 people, Just over 1.14 people per week would be thrown out for being drunk and disorderly (Assuming the stadium was packed every week, even the away games, and bye week)

According to CNN There are 7,700,000 registered voters in Ohio, of whom 5,387,690 (or 69.97%)voted. The Ohio Secretary of State believed at least 625 instances of irregularity occured. That's 0.01% so far.

While I am loathe to make a comparison of a privilege and a right, cars, driving and drunk driving often crops up in these discussions. According to the Federal Highway Administration there were 210 million licensed drivers in 2010. According to The FBI in UCR Table 29 1,412,223 people (or .6% - a rate about FIVE TIMES as high as those pesky irresponsible firearms owners when allowing for more drivers) were arrested for driving under the influence.
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