Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Who am I? What am I?
Why am I here?

In December, 2011, the survey firm YouGov interviewed 45,000 Americans and asked whether they or someone in their household owned a gun and whether they were members of the NRA.  About 22 percent of the sample reported owning a gun, 13 percent said that someone else in their household owned a gun, and 59 percent reported not owning a gun.  The remaining 6 percent were not sure.  Thus, about 35 percent of Americans had a gun in their house—a number, incidentally, much lower than in an October, 2011 Gallup poll but more in line with data from the General Social Survey.

Now, here’s the problem as I see it. A full six percent don’t know? What exactly don’t they know?