kang Colby: Young guns? Millennials may be moving toward greater gun ownership
May be? enough wiggle room for you? I suppose so, but your article hardly gives much support for you outside of anecdotal evidence, and the 18-29 yr old age group has the lowest 2014 percentage 26% of household guns of all age groupings. http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/07/15/the-demographics-and-politics-of-gun-owning-households/
kang's link: On a recent Sunday afternoon, the half-dozen or so firing stalls at Shooting Sports gun range on North Dale Mabry are filled. The men and two women taking practice on this day adjust their safety goggles and ear protection .., stare down their target and fire. It's a process they repeat dozens of times.
Anyone else care to point out how this does not make much of an argument for a massive increase of young guns? sounds more like a propaganda piece from pro gun authors.
On this day, the majority of shooters are young professionals — millennials in their 20s, with a few Gen Y's and Gen X'ers for good measure. It's becoming a common sight, according to several Tampa Bay gun range owners, who say anywhere from a quarter to 50 percent of their clientele are younger than 35.
.. if my guesstimate is correct, 18/21 yo to 35 is about a quarter of the adult population which are gun shooters, not all gun owners (first time at a range I rented a gun). 'Several' gun ranges in tampa bay does not a convincing argument make, kang.
"We have a good percentage of families and they have kids who are 10-18," .. operations manager at Shooting Sports. "It's their family night at the range."
Including those 10 - 18, I guess would make near half the population of 'gun owners', if only gun shooters.
Zellers notes that nearly half of his customers are younger than 40 and in the last 10 years the number of female customers has grown exponentially.
Accd'g to sellers, nearly half his customers must be 'older' than 40, yes? without actual figures, an exponential increase could be 1 to 10, or 10 to 100, etc; whee, I could be watching something more important on tv than doing this you know. Like the wonders of the torx gt blower, the 24 in one ladder, & hey, larry king has a special report I don't wanna miss, on fish oil.
also from kang's likn: While self-protection may very well be the intent of gun owners, a study released in June by the Violence Policy Center found that guns are rarely used to kill criminals or stop crime. Of the 8,342 criminal homicides in 2012 — the most current data available — less than 300 people actually used a gun to kill someone in self-defense.
Those statistics are of no concern to many young gun owners, who insist they just want the option to protect themselves.
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