Hacker News Reader

junkscience2017

this is the inverse: a small minority (tech elites) squelching popular opinion. owning a gun IS objectively popular in the US (there are more guns than people)...even in Silicon Valley. at my current startup roughly half of the developers visit the range regularly. at my local range I always see people with Google and Facebook garb. Bass Pro Shop in San Jose sells out of bulk 9mm ammo within hours of putting it on the floor.

View on HN

Um no.

3% of Americans own more than half our guns. THEY are an elite group.

Only 22% of Americans own any guns at all.

They really are not popular in any sense of the word.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/09/22/study-guns-ow...

> there are more guns than people

That statistic is not super relevant when talking about how people feel about guns. Something like one-third of American households have a gun in them, and if you talk about individuals, it'll be modestly less than that.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com