Debunking The “Declining Number Of Gun Owners” Lie

By Bob Owens

It’s been very amusing, in recent months, to watch a foundering anti-gun mainstream media and their allies on the political left assert that the number of gun owners in the United States is declining, and that their cause of gun control is ascendant.

You can see an example of this sort of bluster at the hysterically anti-gun Mother Jones, in a bit a wishful thinking:

Without doubt, the gun rights lobby is a formidable force. It is backed by a truly grass-roots network of committed and well-organized supporters who are willing to make calls to legislators and turn out in even low-turnout elections to back pro-gun candidates. This “intensity gap” bedevils gun-control groups, which, however well some of their proposals poll, have trouble getting voters to agitate and to prioritize the gun issue the way that gun-rights defenders do.

But the invincibility of the gun lobby is being overstated. For one thing, gun ownership is becoming more concentrated in a smaller share of the population, one that is increasingly clustered in certain regions, thus limiting the lobby’s political reach.

These news organizations are perpetuating the myth of declining gun ownership in hopes of tricking politicians in both parties …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms