Reply #46: well, that was fun [View All]

[iverglas]

Are you actually suggesting that the population of the US is not more urban today than it was in the 1950s?

Are you actually suggesting that hunting has not declined drastically in the US since the 1950s?

If you are, perhaps *you* should be substantiating your own claims. The claims you seem to be disputing are both obvious to a blind bat and very readily substantiated by anybody with the url for google who happens to need such substantiation.

YOU are the one who cited a really very meaningless compilation of public opinion surveys regarding firearms ownership in the US. You really are the one who should be demonstrating that it says what you apparently want it to be saying: that nothing has really changed when it comes to firearms ownership in the US.

The fact is that MANY THINGS have changed when it comes to firearms ownership in the US, the purpose of firearms ownership and the demographic distribution of firearms ownership being two rather big things that have changed.

But, just for you:

http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/ipc/idbsprd

Urban Population as a Percent of Total Population
United States
1990 75.20
Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, International Data Base.

Damn. My "hypothetical" was pretty bang-on, although behind the times; the figure would be higher for the current year.

I'm not having any luck, in the time I have, finding figures for the 1950s in the US. Why don't you give it a shot, and let us know?

And go right ahead and identify any "anecdotal evidence" I have cited, other than to dismiss your bizarre claim about what you know about gun crime. You just don't seem to have addressed anything else I said. Did you not bother to read it, not understand it, or find yourself unable to dismiss it?

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