wrote:
"The Pew Research Center has tracked gun ownership since 1993, and our surveys largely confirm the General Social Survey trend. In our December 1993 survey, 45% reported having a gun in their household; in early 1994, the GSS found 44% saying they had a gun in their home. A January 2013 Pew Research Center survey found 33% saying they had a gun, rifle or pistol in their home, as did 34% in the 2012 wave of the General Social Survey."
Next time, read it before expounding your conclusions, Ok?
See above. It squares quite nicely with Pew's studies. And if you know how the GSS is seriously "flawed," you can become famous.
Bad guesswork on your part. Studies like the GSS pre-test and post-test six ways to Sunday. They've thought of, and tested and corrected for, potential biases that you haven't even considered.
And you run into situations like this: Pro-gun people who talk before thinking, or who talk before studying, constantly cite the Kleck study on defensive uses of a gun. For God's sake, that's a self-reported survey with no pre-test checks, and Kleck estimates up to 2.5 million defensive uses. It's interesting that his estimates for burglary defenses work out to more than 100% of the burglaries committed with a homeowner in the house <g>, but aside from that, what better evidence do you need that people are MORE than willing to brag about having a gun at home? Some of them claimed they've used their guns in defense of their home dozens of times...
So your comment about my "assumptions" being "deeply flawed" are taken with a large grain of salt. I'm not making assumptions. I've actually done the work, both academically and in actual field studies, for marketing clients and for others who were satisfying government (FCC) requirements.
How many surveys have you done?
"The Pew Research Center has tracked gun ownership since 1993, and our surveys largely confirm the General Social Survey trend. In our December 1993 survey, 45% reported having a gun in their household; in early 1994, the GSS found 44% saying they had a gun in their home. A January 2013 Pew Research Center survey found 33% saying they had a gun, rifle or pistol in their home, as did 34% in the 2012 wave of the General Social Survey."
Next time, read it before expounding your conclusions, Ok?
See above. It squares quite nicely with Pew's studies. And if you know how the GSS is seriously "flawed," you can become famous.
Bad guesswork on your part. Studies like the GSS pre-test and post-test six ways to Sunday. They've thought of, and tested and corrected for, potential biases that you haven't even considered.
And you run into situations like this: Pro-gun people who talk before thinking, or who talk before studying, constantly cite the Kleck study on defensive uses of a gun. For God's sake, that's a self-reported survey with no pre-test checks, and Kleck estimates up to 2.5 million defensive uses. It's interesting that his estimates for burglary defenses work out to more than 100% of the burglaries committed with a homeowner in the house <g>, but aside from that, what better evidence do you need that people are MORE than willing to brag about having a gun at home? Some of them claimed they've used their guns in defense of their home dozens of times...
So your comment about my "assumptions" being "deeply flawed" are taken with a large grain of salt. I'm not making assumptions. I've actually done the work, both academically and in actual field studies, for marketing clients and for others who were satisfying government (FCC) requirements.
How many surveys have you done?
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Ed Huntress
Ed Huntress