Re:De-Obfuscating the Statistics of Mass Shootings
by mikeash on Monday July 06, 2015 @11:45AM
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How do you get $100,000? If 30% of households own guns, that's about 37 million gun-owning households. If there are 300 million guns, that's about 8 guns per gun-owning household. If that's $100,000, that means a gun is worth on average $12,500. I'm hardly an expert on guns but that seems about an order of magnitude too high from what I do know.
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Re:De-Obfuscating the Statistics of Mass Shootings
by hga on Monday July 06, 2015 @01:09PM
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This was in reference to a statistic about who's buying newly manufactured "assault weapons", particularly the mass quantities of AR-15 pattern rifles and the like that have been selling like hot cakes since the 2008 election.
It insisted that only us "gun nuts", not e.g. the large number of households that only have one or two guns for self-protection, were buying almost all of these new guns; to review and improve my estimate we'd have to find that particular statistic/study.
Re:De-Obfuscating the Statistics of Mass Shootings
by mikeash on Monday July 06, 2015 @01:23PM
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I see. Is there some context in the gun world that I'm missing out on? Since the comment you replied to said nothing about AR-15s or indeed anything beyond the number of gun-owning households and number of guns overall changing over the years.