SK>I am surprised at your statement "most households in this country own a
SK>firearm". To my knowledge, I know no one who owns a gun. Do you have a
SK>source to back up this statistic?
If one considers hunting as well as target and
self-defense, an AWFUL lot of households have some 
type of firearm in them.. MOST might be a stretch, 
nationally, but there are certainly areas of the 
country where almost ALL households have firearms, 
and others where there aren't many at all.  It's 
probably a regional consideration... I have five, 
which I now seldom use, for example; three were 
hunting-related, one for targets, one for self-
defense (as a tennis pro, I moved around town 
carrying a lot of cash on my person)...
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