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06-03-2016, 07:36 PM
Here’s how your state’s gun ownership rate stacks up to countries around the world
Posted on June 3, 2016 (http://personalliberty.com/heres-how-your-states-gun-ownership-rate-stacks-up-to-countries-around-the-world/) by Personal Liberty News Desk (http://personalliberty.com/author/personallibertynewsdeskpl/)Views: 1,691
https://plnami.blob.core.windows.net/media/2015/10/gun100815.jpgNo this isn’t a new U.N.-sponsored map. It’s a map comparing gun ownership of each state with gun ownership in other countries as documented by the international Small Arms Survey.
We learn that California is similar to China. New York is like Pakistan. Texas is like Germany.
What does that tell us? One important takeaway is that despite the right to bear arms being written in to our nation’s founding documents, lawmakers in some states and municipalities have managed to restrict gun ownership to levels seen only in the most heavily-restrictive countries in the world for gun owners.
https://plnami.blob.core.windows.net/media/2016/06/map.jpg (https://plnami.blob.core.windows.net/media/2016/06/map.jpg)
Here’s how the map’s creators over at Movoto Blog reached their conclusions:
We started with a research group in Switzerland called Small Arms Survey and its report “Small Arms Survey 2007: Guns and the City.” Among other things, it estimated gun-ownership numbers for 178 countries, including the United States (which it estimates has about 270 million guns).
We then took the estimate of 88.8 guns per 100 people for the U.S.—which, seven years later, is likely higher—and used it to calculate each state’s estimated gun ownership, based on state populations from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2010 survey. (Of course, gun-ownership density varies throughout the country, but this number gave us a easy way to come up with comparable figures for all 50 states, since actual state-to-state numbers were not available.)
Once we had the list of state numbers, we compared each one to Small Arms Survey’s list of countries and respective gun-ownership estimates, logging the nearest match.
http://personalliberty.com/heres-how-your-states-gun-ownership-rate-stacks-up-to-countries-around-the-world/
Posted on June 3, 2016 (http://personalliberty.com/heres-how-your-states-gun-ownership-rate-stacks-up-to-countries-around-the-world/) by Personal Liberty News Desk (http://personalliberty.com/author/personallibertynewsdeskpl/)Views: 1,691
https://plnami.blob.core.windows.net/media/2015/10/gun100815.jpgNo this isn’t a new U.N.-sponsored map. It’s a map comparing gun ownership of each state with gun ownership in other countries as documented by the international Small Arms Survey.
We learn that California is similar to China. New York is like Pakistan. Texas is like Germany.
What does that tell us? One important takeaway is that despite the right to bear arms being written in to our nation’s founding documents, lawmakers in some states and municipalities have managed to restrict gun ownership to levels seen only in the most heavily-restrictive countries in the world for gun owners.
https://plnami.blob.core.windows.net/media/2016/06/map.jpg (https://plnami.blob.core.windows.net/media/2016/06/map.jpg)
Here’s how the map’s creators over at Movoto Blog reached their conclusions:
We started with a research group in Switzerland called Small Arms Survey and its report “Small Arms Survey 2007: Guns and the City.” Among other things, it estimated gun-ownership numbers for 178 countries, including the United States (which it estimates has about 270 million guns).
We then took the estimate of 88.8 guns per 100 people for the U.S.—which, seven years later, is likely higher—and used it to calculate each state’s estimated gun ownership, based on state populations from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2010 survey. (Of course, gun-ownership density varies throughout the country, but this number gave us a easy way to come up with comparable figures for all 50 states, since actual state-to-state numbers were not available.)
Once we had the list of state numbers, we compared each one to Small Arms Survey’s list of countries and respective gun-ownership estimates, logging the nearest match.
http://personalliberty.com/heres-how-your-states-gun-ownership-rate-stacks-up-to-countries-around-the-world/