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US Gun Ownership, 1973-2010

US Gun ownership (in percentage of households with at least one firearm) has been trending downward since roughly 1977. The gap between the two lines signifies non-response to the question; we don't know whether those people had guns or not.

 

Notice that there is not data for every year. This data comes from occasional polls, and the polls were conducted in various years until they settled on a pattern of conducting them in every even-numbered year. The 2012 results have not yet been released. The poll data can be retrieved here:

sda.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/hsda?/var/www/cgi/cgi-bin/harcsd...

 

Compare to US Murder Rate: flickr.com/photos/91128695@N07/8283560518/

US Fatality Rate: flickr.com/photos/91128695@N07/8281162948/

And US Violent Crime Rate: flickr.com/photos/91128695@N07/8298646211/

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Uploaded on December 28, 2012
Taken on December 28, 2012