Rate Of U.S. Gun Violence Has Fallen Since 1993, Study Says

[jimmy the one]

47. but gun ownership has declined those years

marble falls: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Army The structure of the Swiss militia system stipulates..
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/Specials/Gun_debate/Background/Archives/Soldiers_can_keep_guns_at_home_but_not_ammo.html?cid=970614 "Zwei Drittel der Rekruten diensttauglich (2009.

Don't you think you should've checked your above links prior to sticking your foot in your mouth about switz, canada, & israel being more armed than USA?

Your point actually is one of mine - it ain't the guns, its the gun nuts.

.. except that wasn't my point, which is it's both guns & gunnuts.

marble falls: Gun Crimes Drop, Gun Purchases Rise May 8, 2013

The very same article's headline could also read 'Gun Crimes Drop as Gun Ownership Drops', since gun ownership has fallen the past 30 yrs while gun sales have increased - primarily amongst existing gunowners.
So what apparently is happening is approx the 20/80 rule where 20% of the people enthralled with the 'fad' purchase 80% of the fad itself - which then isn't enough to compensate for yearly population growth so the actual ownership rate falls.

mar 2013:A national survey shows that US gun ownership has fallen steeply since the 1980s, even in the South and Western mountain areas where guns are more popular, the New York Times reports. The national ownership rate hovered around 50% in the 1970s and '80s, but dropped to 43% in the 1990s and 35% the decade after, according to the General Social Survey, the only poll to cover US gun ownership for so long. Democrats and independents lead the shift, with Republican gun ownership down just slightly.. the survey's director says those reports may reflect current gun owners stocking up on more firepower. Theories with experts noting:
1 the end of the US draft (fewer soldiers = fewer household guns) 2 rising urbanization (guns being favored in rural areas) 3 more Hispanics (only 14% of them have guns) 4 and more women heading households (only 10% of women own guns) http://www.newser.com/story/164169/gun-ownership-numbers-way-down.html

another: For the last 30 years, it turns out, gun ownership has dropped steadily. Today, only about 30% of households own a gun. Most of this is due to demographics. Apparently there was a big spurt in gun ownership in the generation born between 1920 and 1960, and then the spurt went away... I suspect the increase in gun sales has been limited mostly to current gun owners. The most reputable surveys show a decline over time in the share of households with guns