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Can it be that the fascination with guns is slowly coming to an end?
And can it be that the reason the US homicide rate is falling is because the number of households owning guns is falling?
It seems so, according to both the NY Times and LA Times, Gallup and the General Social Survey:
The share of American households with guns has declined over the past four decades, a national survey shows, with some of the most surprising drops in the South and the Western mountain states, where guns are deeply embedded in the culture.
The household gun ownership rate has fallen from an average of 50 percent in the 1970s to 49 percent in the 1980s, 43 percent in the 1990s and 35 percent in the 2000s, according to the survey data, analyzed by The New York Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/us/rate-of-gun-ownership-is-down-survey-shows.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
The major point is that the American culture of gun ownership that one often hears about has been strikingly on the wane for the past generation. A similar decline has taken place in the number of Americans who hunt, now about 5% of the population.
Crime is down -- and so is gun ownership - Los Angeles Times
And can it be that the reason the US homicide rate is falling is because the number of households owning guns is falling?
It seems so, according to both the NY Times and LA Times, Gallup and the General Social Survey:
The share of American households with guns has declined over the past four decades, a national survey shows, with some of the most surprising drops in the South and the Western mountain states, where guns are deeply embedded in the culture.
The household gun ownership rate has fallen from an average of 50 percent in the 1970s to 49 percent in the 1980s, 43 percent in the 1990s and 35 percent in the 2000s, according to the survey data, analyzed by The New York Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/us/rate-of-gun-ownership-is-down-survey-shows.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
The major point is that the American culture of gun ownership that one often hears about has been strikingly on the wane for the past generation. A similar decline has taken place in the number of Americans who hunt, now about 5% of the population.
Crime is down -- and so is gun ownership - Los Angeles Times